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Immigration and the ephemerality of a natural population bottleneck: evidence from molecular markers.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jul 2001
Keller L F, Jeffery K J, Arcese P, Beaumont M A, Hochachka W M, Smith J N, Bruford M W
Abstract excerpt
Population bottlenecks are often invoked to explain low levels of genetic variation in natural populations, yet few studies have documented the direct genetic consequences of known bottlenecks in the wild. Empirical studies of natural population bottlenecks are therefore needed, because key assumptions of theoretical and laboratory studies of bottlenecks may not hold in the wild. Here we present microsatellite...
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