Genetic variability and gene flow in the globally, critically-endangered Taita thrush

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-55

  Galbusera, Peter ^a   Lens, Luc ^a,b   Schenck, Tine ^a   Waiyaki, Edward ^b   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Assignment test; Effective population size; Gene flow; Habitat fragmentation; Microsatellite DNA markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000051709     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010184200648     Document Type: Article

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