Mitochondrial DNA and palaeontological evidence for the origins of endangered European mink, Mustela lutreola

Animal Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-355

  Davison, Angus ^a,b   Griffiths, Huw I ^c   Brookes, Rachael C ^a,b   Maran, Tiit ^d   Macdonald, David W ^e   Sidorovich, Vadim E ^f   Kitchener, Andrew C ^g   Irizar, Iñaki ^h   Villate, Idoia ^h   González Esteban, Jorge ^h   Ceña, Juan Carlos ⁱ   Ceña, Alfonso ⁱ   Moya, Ivan ⁱ   Miñano, Santiago Palazón ^j  

^a Martin Ryan Building   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d E M C C   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

^g DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h Departamento de Vertebrados   (Spain)

ⁱ Universitat de Barcelona ^*  (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSTELA EVERSMANNII; MUSTELA LUTREOLA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 0000615929     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943000001062     Document Type: Article

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