Insights into population ecology and sexual selection in snakes through the application of DNA-based genetic markers

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 173-179

  Gibbs, H Lisle ^a   Weatherhead, P J ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKE;

AVES; NERODIA SIPEDON; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034993840     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/92.2.173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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