Genetic rescue of an insular population of large mammals

Natural populations worldwide are increasingly fragmented by habitat loss. Isolation at small population size is thought to reduce individual and population fitness via inbreeding depression. However, little is known about the time-scale over which adverse genetic effects may develop in natural popu...

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Main Authors: Hogg, John T, Forbes, Stephen H, Steele, Brian M, Luikart, Gordon
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560318/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16777743
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3477
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