Habitat barriers limit gene flow and illuminate historical events in a wide-ranging carnivore, the American puma

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1965-1977

  Mcrae, B H ^a   Beier, P ^a   Dewald, L E ^b   Huynh, L Y ^a,c   Keim, P ^a,d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NAU Environmental Genetics and Genomics (EnGGEN) Center

Author keywords

Gene flow; Landscape connectivity; Microsatellites; Population genetics; Population structure; Puma concolor

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PUMA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUMA; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 20144373033     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02571.x     Document Type: Article

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