Genetic evidence for survival of released captive-bred brown hares Lepus europaeus during restocking operations in Greece

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Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 548-551

  Stamatis, Costas ^a   Suchentrunk, Franz ^b   Sert, Hakan ^c   Triantaphyllidis, Costas ^d   Mamuris, Zissis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brown hare; Conservation; Greece; Lepus europaeus; mtDNA; Restocking; RFLP

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; GENOME; HUNTING; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; LEPUS; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 36749023274     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605307007132     Document Type: Article

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