Haplotype diversity of mountain hare mtDNA among native mountain hares and introduced brown hares in Scandinavia

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Thulin, Carl Gustaf ^a   Tegelström, Håkan ^a   Fredga, Karl ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION GENETICS;

NORWAY; SWEDEN;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037245325     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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