Molecular-Level Variation Affects Population Growth in a Butterfly Metapopulation
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Molecular-Level Variation Affects Population Growth in a Butterfly Metapopulation
The dynamics of natural populations are thought to be dominated by demographic and environmental processes with little influence of intraspecific genetic variation and natural selection, apart from inbreeding depression possibly reducing population growth in small populations. Here we analyse hundreds of well-characterised local populations in a large metapopulation of the Glanville fritillary ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040129