Broken barriers: Human-induced changes to gene flow and introgression in animals: An examination of the ways in which humans increase genetic exchange among populations and species and the consequences for biodiversity

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 508-518

  Crispo, Erika ^a   Moore, Jean Sébastien ^b   Lee Yaw, Julie A ^b   Gray, Suzanne M ^c   Haller, Benjamin C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Dispersal; Hybridization; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AIR POLLUTANT; ALLELE; ALLOPATRY; ALTITUDE; AMBYSTOMA; AMPHIBIA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL FOOD; ANT; ARCTIC; ASCIDIACEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALIA; BEAK; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BIRD; BREEDING; CICHLID; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEA; CRYPTIC (ERA); DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUTROPHICATION; FINCH; FIRE; FISH; FITNESS; FOREST; FROG; GAMETE; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HAPLOTYPE; HARE; HETEROSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYBRID; ILLUMINATION; INBREEDING; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LATITUDE; LIGHT; MAMMAL; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PITCH; PLANT; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR BEAR; POPULATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; RAILWAY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REVIEW; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; SPECIES INVASION; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SPECTRUM; SQUIRREL; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; TOAD; TREE; TURBIDITY; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTANT; WILD ANIMAL; WOOD DEBRIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENE FLOW; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79959276723     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000154     Document Type: Review

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