The colonization history and present-day population structure of the European great tit (Parus major major)

Heredity

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 495-502

  Kvist, Laura ^a   Ruokonen, Minna ^a   Lumme, Jaakko ^a   Orell, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Control region; Dispersal; Gene flow; mtDNA; Population growth; Refuge

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

COLONIZATION; GENE FLOW; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0032986073     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6885130     Document Type: Article

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