Conservation genetics of carnivores in Italy

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Randi, Ettore ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Conservation genetics; Hybridization; Otter; Phylogeography; Wildcat; Wolf

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ARTICLE; BEAR; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORA; CARNIVORE; CAT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ITALY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL; WOLF;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0141829128     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1631-0691(03)00038-6     Document Type: Article

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