Absence of genetic variation in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Dutch Wadden Sea and the British Wash

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 289-293

  Swart, Jacobus A A ^a   Reijnders, Peter J H ^b   Van Delden, Wilke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 0030062008     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010289.x     Document Type: Article

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