Sex-related spatial kin structure in a spring population of grey-sided voles Clethrionomys rufocanus as revealed by mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA analyses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-71

  Ishibashi, Y ^a   Saitoh, T ^b   Abe, S ^a   Yoshida, M C ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

dispersal; grey sided vole; kin structure; maternal lineage; philopatry; relatedness

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 0031040266     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1997.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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