Relationships of the endangered Mexican kit fox (Vulpes macrotis zinseri) to North American arid-land foxes based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 460-470

  Maldonado, Jesús E ^a   Cotera, Mauricio ^b   Geffen, Eli ^c   Wayne, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VULPES MACROTIS;

EID: 0031426756     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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