Population structure of California coyotes corresponds to habitat-specific breaks and illuminates species history

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1265-1275

  Sacks, Benjamin N ^a   Brown, Sarah K ^a   Ernest, Holly B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Veterinary Genetics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis latrans; Gene flow; Genetic structure; Habitat; Isolation by distance; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COYOTE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; COYOTES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1942485921     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02110.x     Document Type: Article

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