Genetic analysis of founder bottlenecks in the rare British butterfly Plebejus argus

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 648-661

  Brookes, Martin I ^a,b   Graneau, Yvonne A ^a,b   King, Peter ^a   Rose, Owen C ^a,b   Thomas, Chris D ^a   Mallet, James L B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK; COLONIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SILVER-STUDDED BLUE BUTTERFLY;

UK, WALES, CLWYD, RHYD-Y-FOEL;

EID: 0031458115     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96163.x     Document Type: Article

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