Article
Usefulness of molecular markers for detecting population bottlenecks via monitoring genetic change.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 1998
Luikart G, Sherwin W B, Steele B M, Allendorf F W
Abstract excerpt
It is important to detect population bottlenecks in threatened and managed species because bottlenecks can increase the risk of population extinction. Early detection is critical and can be facilitated by statistically powerful monitoring programs for detecting bottleneck-induced genetic change....
Topics
- Alleles
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Computer Simulation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Environmental Monitoring
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetics, Population
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Genetic
- Monte Carlo Method
- Population Dynamics
- Sex Ratio
- Sheep
- Statistics, Nonparametric