Genetic composition of wild turkeys in Kansas following decades of translocations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1698-1703

  Latch, Emily K ^a   Applegate, Roger D ^b,c   Rhodes Jr , Olin E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

^c TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment; Dispersal; Hybridization; Kansas; Microsatellite; Population genetics; Reintroduction; Subspecies; Translocation; Wild turkey

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; REINTRODUCTION; TRANSLOCATION; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO INTERMEDIA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO MERRIAMI; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO SILVESTRIS;

EID: 33646715127     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1698:GCOWTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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