Clouded leopard phylogeny revisited: Support for species recognition and population division between Borneo and Sumatra

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wilting, Andreas ^a   Buckley Beason, Valerie A ^b   Feldhaar, Heike ^a   Gadau, Jürgen ^c   O'Brien, Stephen J ^b   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA;

EID: 34547322911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-4-15     Document Type: Article

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