Are molecular markers useful predictors of adaptive potential?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 772-778

  Mittell, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^c,d   Hadfield, Jarrod D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adaptive potential; Conservation genetics; Heritability; Microsatellite diversity heterozygosity; Nucleotide diversity; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY;

GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84946397658     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12454     Document Type: Article

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