Genetic patterns suggest exponential population growth in a declining species

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1106-1113

  Lavery, Shane ^a   Moritz, Craig ^a   Fielder, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birgus latro; lineages through time; mismatch distribution; pairwise genetic differences; population growth

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIRGUS LATRO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0029908281     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025672     Document Type: Article

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