Sorting out tigers (Panthera tigris): Mitochondrial sequences, nuclear inserts, systematics, and conservation genetics

Animal Conservation

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-150

  Cracraft, Joel ^a   Feinstein, Julie ^a   Vaughn, Jeffrey ^b   Helm Bychowski, Kathleen ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PANTHERA TIGRIS SUMATRAE;

EID: 0001290611     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943098000080     Document Type: Article

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