Detecting introgressive hybridisation in rock partridge populations (Alectoris graeca) in Greece through Bayesian admixture analyses of multilocus genotypes

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 343-354

  Barilani, Marina ^a   Sfougaris, Athanassios ^c   Giannakopoulos, Alexis ^c   Mucci, Nadia ^a   Tabarroni, Cristiano ^b   Randi, Ettore ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^b University of Thessaly ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alectoris graeca and chukar; Bayesian admixture analysis; Introgressive hybridisation; Microsatellites; mtDNA Control region; Rock and chukar partridges

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAPTIVE BREEDING; DETECTION METHOD; GAMEBIRD; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION DECLINE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALECTORIS; ALECTORIS CHUKAR; ALECTORIS GRAECA;

EID: 33847614362     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9174-1     Document Type: Article

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