A Near-extinction Event in Lynx: Do Microsatellite Data Tell the Tale?

Fluctuations in population size can have a profound impact on effective population size and the maintenance of genetic variation within a population. A number of tests based on microsatellite data have been developed for the detection of bottleneck events in a population's past. In this paper,...

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Main Authors: Goran Spong, Linda Hellborg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2002-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss1/art15/