A comparison of genetic diversity between the Galápagos Penguin and the Magellanic Penguin

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 375-383

  Akst, Elaine P ^a,b   Boersma, P Dee ^c   Fleischer, Robert C ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; El Ni o; Endangered; Microsatellite; Penguin; Spheniscus

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISEASES; FISHERIES; LANDFORMS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ENDANGERED SPECIES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CONSERVATION GENETICS; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EL NINO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; SEABIRD;

ECUADOR;

AVES; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS; SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS; SPHENISCUS MENDICULUS;

EID: 0036035830     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020555303124     Document Type: Article

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