Rapid selection against inbreeding in a wild population of a rare frog

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-38

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a,b   Garner, Trenton W J ^c   Wang, Jinliang ^c   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic purging; Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; Rana latastei; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952781497     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00130.x     Document Type: Article

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