Experimental Confirmation That Inbreeding Depression Increases Extinction Risk in Butterfly Populations | Zendy

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Experimental Confirmation That Inbreeding Depression Increases Extinction Risk in Butterfly Populations

Author(s) -

Marko Nieminen,

Michael C. Singer,

Wilhelm Fortelius,

Katrin Schöps,

Ilkka Hanski

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

the american naturalist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.954

H-Index - 205

eISSN - 1537-5323

pISSN - 0003-0147

DOI - 10.1086/318630

Subject(s) - inbreeding depression , butterfly , extinction (optical mineralogy) , biology , ecology , depression (economics) , zoology , inbreeding , population , demography , economics , paleontology , macroeconomics , sociology

Laboratory and field studies on Melitaea cinxia in southwestern Finland showed a significant difference in the performance of experimental inbred and crossbred populations, which supports previous observational results on inbreeding-related extinctions in this species

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