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Fine-scale genetic structure in a free-living ungulate population.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2003
Coltman D W, Pilkington J G, Pemberton J M
Abstract excerpt
The fine-scale genetic structure of wild animal populations has rarely been analysed, yet is potentially important as a confounding factor in quantitative genetic and allelic association studies, as well as having implications for population dynamics, inbreeding and kin selection. In this study, we examined the extent to which the three spatial subunits, or hefts, of the Village Bay population of Soay sheep (Ovis...
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