Historical demography and present day population structure of the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris - An analysis of mtDNA control-region sequences

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 946-956

  Merilä, Juha ^a,b,c   Björklund, Mats ^a   Baker, Allan J ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Carduelis chloris; Control region; Effective population size; Genetic diversity; Geographic variation; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK; GENETIC VARIATION; GREENFINCH; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

(NORTH); EUROPE;

CARDUELIS CHLORIS; CHLORIS;

EID: 1842287948     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03675.x     Document Type: Article

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