Analysis of relatedness and determination of the source of founders in the captive bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, population

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 479-490

  Gautschi, Barbara ^a   Jacob, Gwenaël ^a   Negro, Juan J ^b   Godoy, Jose A ^b   Müller, Jürg P ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Bündner Natur Museum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gypaetus barbatus; Kinship analysis; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Population assignment

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MICROSATELLITES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CAPTIVE POPULATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; KINSHIP; RAPTOR; RELATEDNESS;

AVES; GYPAETUS BARBATUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 0043068356     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024730128819     Document Type: Article

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