Geographical Variation in the Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, Reveals Two Species

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2377-2383

  Kitchener, Andrew C ^a,b   Beaumont, Mark A ^c   Richardson, Douglas ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d Singapore Zoo   (Singapore)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FELIDAE; HISTOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FELIDAE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA;

EID: 33751397883     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.10.066     Document Type: Article

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