The influence of captive breeding management on founder representation and inbreeding in the ‘Alalā, the Hawaiian crow

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 369-378

  Hedrick, Philip W ^a   Hoeck, Paquita E A ^b   Fleischer, Robert C ^c   Farabaugh, Susan ^b   Masuda, Bryce M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Genetic drift; Inbreeding; Inbreeding depression; Pedigree

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTIVITY; EXTINCTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

CORVUS HAWAIIENSIS;

EID: 84961182907     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-015-0788-z     Document Type: Article

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