Mitochondrial haplotype diversity in the tortoise species Testudo graeca from North Africa and the Middle East

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Van Der Kuyl, Antoinette C ^a   Ballasina, Donato L P ^b   Zorgdrager, Fokla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centro CARAPAX   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO GRAECA; TESTUDO GRAECA GRAECA; TESTUDO GRAECA IBERA; TESTUDO GRAECA WHITEI;

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAST; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURTLE;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE EAST; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TURTLES;

EID: 21344471906     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-29     Document Type: Article

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