Establishing causes of eradication failure based on genetics: Case study of ship rat eradication in Ste. Anne archipelago

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 719-730

  Abdelkrim, Jawad ^a,b,c   Pascal, Michel ^b   Samadi, Sarah ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Eradication strategies; Martinique; Microsatellite markers; Population structure; Rattus rattus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARCHIPELAGO; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONITORING; PEST CONTROL; POISONING; RECOLONIZATION; RODENT; SURVIVAL; TRAPPING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARTINIQUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; RODENT CONTROL; SHIP;

ANIMALS; GENE FREQUENCY; MARTINIQUE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RODENT CONTROL; SHIPS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; MARTINIQUE; SAINTE ANNE ARCHIPELAGO; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 34249326616     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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