Genetically distinct island populations of the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 697-706

  Kretzmann, Maria B ^a   Capote, N ^b   Gautschi, B ^c   Godoy, J A ^b   Donazar J A ^b   Negro, J J ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Island populations; Microsatellites; Vultures

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ISLAND; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALEARIC ISLANDS; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 0942295039     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000006123.67128.86     Document Type: Article

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