Ménage à trois on Macquarie Island: Hybridization among three species of fur seal (Arctocephalus spp.) following historical population extinction

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3681-3692

  Lancaster, M L ^a   Gemmell, N J ^b   Negro, S ^b   Goldsworthy, S ^a,d   Sunnucks, P ^a,c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arctocephalus; Backcross; Fur seal; Hybridization; Introgression

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; INBREEDING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INBREEDING; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ARCTOCEPHALUS; ARCTOCEPHALUS FORSTERI; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; ARCTOCEPHALUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 33749848095     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03041.x     Document Type: Article

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