Article
Effects of chemical contaminants on genetic diversity in natural populations: implications for biomonitoring and ecotoxicology.
Mutation research - 1 Jul 2000
Bickham J W, Sandhu S, Hebert P D, Chikhi L, Athwal R
Abstract excerpt
The conservation of genetic diversity has emerged as one of the central issues in conservation biology. Although researchers in the areas of evolutionary biology, population management, and conservation biology routinely investigate genetic variability in natural populations, only a handful of studies have addressed the effects of chemical contamination on population genetics. Chemical contamination can cause...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Cyprinodontiformes
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Monitoring
- Environmental Pollutants
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Ictaluridae
- Mutation