Large mainland populations of South Island robins retain greater genetic diversity than offshore island refuges

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 705-714

  Boessenkool, Sanne ^a,b   Taylor, Sabrina S ^a   Tepolt, Carolyn K ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^b   Jamieson, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Genetic variation; New Zealand; Petroica australis australis; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HATCHING; HETEROGENEITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION MIGRATION; REFUGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

PETROICA AUSTRALIS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 34247554172     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9219-5     Document Type: Article

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