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Demographic costs of inbreeding revealed by sex-specific genetic rescue effects

BACKGROUND: Inbreeding can slow population growth and elevate extinction risk. A small number of unrelated immigrants to an inbred population can substantially reduce inbreeding and improve fitness, but little attention has been paid to the sex-specific effects of immigrants on such "genetic re...

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Autores principales: Zajitschek, Susanne RK, Zajitschek, Felix, Brooks, Robert C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20003302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-289