Mitochondrial DNA variability in Italian and east European wolves: Detecting the consequences of small population size and hybridization

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 464-473

  Randi, Ettore ^a   Lucchini, Vittorio ^a   Christensen, Mads Fjeldsø ^a   Mucci, Nadia ^a   Funk, Stephan M ^b   Dolf, Gaudenz ^c   Loeschcke, Volker ^d  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRING; BULGARIA; EUROPE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; ITALY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OUTBREEDING; POPULATION; SURVIVAL; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANID; CONSERVATION STATUS; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ITALY;

CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 0033998509     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98280.x     Document Type: Article

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