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Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in adult and juvenile Zenaida Dove, Zenaida aurita.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Monceau Karine, Wattier Rémi, Dechaume-Moncharmont François-Xavier, Dubreuil Christine, Cézilly Frank
Abstract excerpt
Understanding how fitness is related to genetic variation is of crucial importance in both evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. We report a study of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in a wild, noninbred population of Zenaida Doves, Zenaida aurita, based on a sample comprising 489 individuals (382 adults and 107 juveniles) typed at 13 microsatellite loci, resulting in a data set comprising 5793...
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