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Effective number of breeders and maintenance of genetic diversity in the captive bearded vulture population.
Heredity - 1 Jul 2003
Gautschi B, Müller J P, Schmid B, Shykoff J A
Abstract excerpt
We combined pedigree data with data derived from 14 microsatellite loci to investigate genetic diversity and its maintenance in the captive source population for the reintroduction of the bearded vulture into the Alps. We found the captive population to be genetically more variable than the largest natural population in Europe, both in terms of mean number of alleles per locus and mean observed and expected...
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