Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population

Nature

Volumn 511, Issue 7510, 2014, Pages 462-465

  Forcada, Jaume ^a   Hoffman, Joseph Ivan ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAUGHTER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE ADVANTAGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; POLYGYNY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84904818402     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13542     Document Type: Article

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