Genetic reconstruction of the population dynamics of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in response to floods

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2934-2947

  Lada, Hania ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Taylor, Andrea C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Australia; Flood; Microsatellite; Mitochondrial DNA; Murray River

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ALLELES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

ANTECHINUS; ANTECHINUS FLAVIPES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 34447125739     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03327.x     Document Type: Article

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