Genetic Consequences of a Severe Population Bottleneck in the Guadalupe fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 144-153

  Weber, D S ^a,d   Stewart, B S ^b   Lehman, Niles ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HUBBS SEAWORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; BREEDING; DNA DETERMINATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RARITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; FUR SEALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCTOCEPHALUS; ARCTOCEPHALUS TOWNSENDI; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 1942508171     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esh018     Document Type: Article

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