No Need to Isolate Genetics
- 27 November 1998
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 282 (5394), 1658-1659
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.282.5394.1658
Abstract
Does the loss of genetic variability in small populations contribute to their extinction? Soulé comments on this question in his Perspective, referring to new data from a long-term study of the declining population of the Illinois prairie chicken (Westemeier et al.) on p. 1695 of this issue. Results from this study indicate that inbreeding depression does in fact exacerbate the likelihood of extinction.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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