Population size and time since island isolation determine genetic diversity loss in insular frog populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 637-648

  Wang, Supen ^a,b   Zhu, Wei ^a,b   Gao, Xu ^a,b   Li, Xianping ^a,b   Yan, Shaofei ^a,b   Liu, Xuan ^a   Yang, Ji ^a   Gao, Zengxiang ^c   Li, Yiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

genetic diversity; genetic drift; land bridge island; microsatellite markers; Pelophylax nigromaculatus; population size; time since island isolation

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LAND-BRIDGE ISLAND; MICROSATELLITE MARKERS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PELOPHYLAX NIGROMACULATUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; RANIDAE; TIME SINCE ISLAND ISOLATION;

GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC DRIFT; LAND-BRIDGE ISLAND; MICROSATELLITE MARKERS; PELOPHYLAX NIGROMACULATUS; POPULATION SIZE; TIME SINCE ISLAND ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; ISLANDS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; RANIDAE;

EID: 84892975329     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12634     Document Type: Article

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