The genetical history of an isolated population of the endangered grey wolf Canis lupus : A study of nuclear and mitochondrial polymorphisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 351, Issue 1348, 1996, Pages 1661-1669

  Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS LUPUS;

ENDANGERED MAMMAL; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GREY WOLF; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0030606354     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1996.0148     Document Type: Article

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