Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of the grey wolf Canis lupus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2089-2103

  Vila C ^a,b   Amorim, I R ^b,c   Leonard, J A ^b   Posada, D ^d   Castroviejo, J ^e   Petrucci Fonseca, F ^c   Crandall, K A ^d   Ellegren, H ^a   Wayne, R K ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Census; Coyote; Demography; mtDNA; Nucleotide diversity; Population structure

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 0033389838     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00825.x     Document Type: Article

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