Gene flow between insular, coastal and interior populations of brown bears in Alaska

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1283-1292

  Paetkau, David ^a,c,d   Shields, Gerald F ^b   Strobeck, Curtis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Curtis Strobeck's Laboratory

Author keywords

Brown bears; Genetic distance; Microsatellites; Sex biased dispersal; Taxonomy; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; URSIDAE;

MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0032188801     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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