Unexpected persistence on habitat islands: Genetic signatures reveal dispersal of a eucalypt-dependent marsupial through a hostile pine matrix

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2655-2666

  Taylor, Andrea C ^a   Tyndale Biscoe, Hugh ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assignment tests; Dispersal; Habitat fragmentation; Petauroides volans; Population genetics; Population structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION CENTER; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; GENOTYPE; MARSUPIALIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUSEUMS; POPULATION DENSITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

METATHERIA; PETAUROIDES VOLANS;

EID: 34347332439     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03331.x     Document Type: Article

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