Genetic consequences of a demographic bottleneck in the Scandinavian arctic fox

Oikos

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-94

  Nystrom V ^a   Angerbjorn A ^a   Dalen L ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MAMMAL; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDINAVIA;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; VULPES;

EID: 33746922697     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14701.x     Document Type: Article

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