TY - T1 - Molecular-level variation affects population growth in a butterfly metapopulation. SN - / 1545-7885 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040129; http://hdl.handle.net/1975/6106 T3 - A1 - Hanski, Ilkka; Saccheri, Ilik A2 - PB - Y1 - 2006 LA - AB - 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 butterfly (Melitaea cinxia), which persists in a balance between stochastic local extinctions and recol... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Alleles; Animals; Butterflies/enzymology/*genetics; Ecosystem; Female; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; Genes, Insect; Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase/genetics; Larva/genetics; Logistic Models; Multivariate Analysis; Population Dynamics; Reproduction; Variation (Genetics) N1 - PP - ER -