Patterns of genetic diversity and its loss in mammalian populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1215-1221

  Garner, Alisse ^a   Rachlow, Janet L ^a   Hicks, Jason F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascertainment bias; Body mass; Conservation policy; Genetic variability; Mammalia; Mammals; Microsatellites; Threatened populations

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CETACEA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 27944488619     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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