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Science 27 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5394, pp. 1658 - 1659
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5394.1658
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives

POPULATION GENETICS:
Enhanced: No Need to Isolate Genetics

Michael E. Soulé and L. Scott Mills

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.

M. E. Soulé is with The Wildlands Project, Post Office Box 2010, Hotchkiss, CO 81419, USA. E-mail: Soule{at}co.tds.net.. Mills is in the Wildlife Biology Program, School of Forestry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. E-mail: smills{at}forestry.umt.edu

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