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Heterozygosity-fitness correlations among wild populations of European tree frog (Hyla arborea) detect fixation load.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2011
Luquet E, David P, Lena J-P, Joly P, Konecny L, Dufresnes C, Perrin N, Plenet S
Abstract excerpt
Quantifying the impacts of inbreeding and genetic drift on fitness traits in fragmented populations is becoming a major goal in conservation biology. Such impacts occur at different levels and involve different sets of loci. Genetic drift randomly fixes slightly deleterious alleles leading to different fixation load among populations. By contrast, inbreeding depression arises from highly deleterious alleles in...
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