Severe Inbreeding and Small Effective Number of Breeders in a Formerly Abundant Marine Fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  O'Leary, Shannon J ^a   Hice, Lyndie A ^a   Feldheim, Kevin A ^b   Frisk, Michael G ^a   McElroy, Anne E ^a   Fast, Mark D ^a,c   Chapman, Demian D ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; BREEDING; ESTUARY; FLOUNDER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FISHES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEW YORK; SAMPLE SIZE; SEAWATER;

PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS;

EID: 84878807545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066126     Document Type: Article

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