Significant patterns of population genetic structure and limited gene flow in a threatened macropodid marsupial despite continuous habitat in southeast Queensland, Australia

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 675-689

  Hazlitt, Stephanie L ^a   Goldizen, Anne W ^a   Eldridge, Mark D B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contemporary gene flow; Microsatellites; Population genetic structure; Rock wallaby; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION GENETICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

MACROPODIDAE; METATHERIA; PETROGALE; PETROGALE PENICILLATA;

EID: 33646574686     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9101-x     Document Type: Article

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