Allozymic variation in California sea otters

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 417-425

  Lidicker Jr , W Z ^a   Mccollum, F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophoresis; Enhydra lutris; Genetic bottleneck; Genetic variation; Sea otter

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ALASKA; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031544567     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382895     Document Type: Article

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