Genetic diversity and population structure of Amazonian crocodilians

Animal Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-272

  Farias, Izeni P ^a   Da Silveira, Ronis ^b   de Thoisy, Benoit ^c   Monjeló, Luis A ^a   Thorbjarnarson, John ^d   Hrbek, Tomas ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Association Kwata   (French Guiana)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROCODILIAN; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION;

BRAZIL; FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CAIMAN CROCODILUS; CROCODILUS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MELANOSUCHUS NIGER;

EID: 14044253356     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136794300400143X     Document Type: Article

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