Detection of farm fox and hybrid genotypes among wild arctic foxes in Scandinavia

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 885-894

  Norén, Karin ^a   Dalén, Love ^a   Kvaløy, Kirsti ^b   Angerbjörn, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; Farmed; Hybridization; Microsatellites; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

CANID; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; VULPES;

EID: 33344469930     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9075-8     Document Type: Article

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