Inferring recent historic abundance from current genetic diversity

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-40

  Palsbøll, Per J ^a,b   Zachariah Peery, M ^c   Olsen, Morten T ^d   Beissinger, Steven R ^e   Bérubé, Martine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescent; conservation; mutation migration drift equilibrium; population genetic inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84872840902     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12094     Document Type: Review

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