Small effective population size in the long-toed salamander

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1633-1640

  Funk, W Chris ^a   Tallmon, David A ^a   Allendorf, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma; Effective population size; Long toed salamander; Temporal method

Indexed keywords

GENE FREQUENCY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POPULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; IDAHO; ISOENZYMES; MONTANA; POPULATION DENSITY;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS;

EID: 0033212761     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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