Expansion load and the evolutionary dynamics of a species range

American Naturalist

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2015, Pages E81-E93

  Peischl, Stephan ^a,b   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^c   Excoffier, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Expansion load; Genetic drift; Genetics; Invasion; Mutation load; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; EQUILIBRIUM; FITNESS; GENETIC DRIFT; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MUTATION; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; RECOMBINATION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928251107     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/680220     Document Type: Article

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