The genetic rescue of two bottlenecked south island robin populations using translocations of inbred donors

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Heber, S ^a,b   Varsani, A ^c   Kuhn, S ^c   Girg, A ^c   Kempenaers, B ^c   Briskie, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fitness; Genetic diversity; Genetic rescue; Inbreeding; Population bottlenecks; Translocations

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; JUVENILE; OUTCROSSING; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SONGBIRD; SPERM; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

PETROICA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 84878960816     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2228     Document Type: Article

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