New Chinese turtles: Endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens

Animal Conservation

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 357-367

  Parham, James Ford ^a   Simison, W Brian ^a   Kozak, Kenneth H ^b   Feldman, Chris R ^c,d   Shi, Haitao ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CUORA SERRATA; MAUREMYS IVERSONI; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0013228248     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943001001421     Document Type: Article

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