Separating Effects of Gene Flow and Natural Selection along an Environmental Gradient

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 187-199

  Volis, Sergei ^a   Zhang, Yong Hong ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Heterosis; Local adaptation; Outbreeding depression; Population differentiation; QST FST comparison

Indexed keywords

SENECIO; SENECIO GLAUCUS;

EID: 78649969795     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-010-9095-2     Document Type: Article

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