Limited Utility of mtDNA Markers for Determining Connectivity among Breeding and Overwintering Locations in Three Neotropical Migrant Birds

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 156-166

  Lovette, Irby J ^a,b   Clegg, Sonya M ^a   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CONNECTIVITY; DNA; GENETIC MARKER; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MONITORING; OVERWINTERING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; GEOTHLYPIS; GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS; ICTERIA VIRENS; PANACEA; PASSERI; VERMIVORA; VERMIVORA RUFICAPILLA;

EID: 1242310437     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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