Molecular population genetics of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1945-1957

  Slade, Robert W ^a,d,e   Moritz, Craig ^a   Hoelzel, A Rus ^b,f   Burton, Harry R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEX RATIO;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; SEALS, EARLESS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; MAMMALIA; MIROUNGA LEONINA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0031879958     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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