Patterns of genetic diversity in the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.): Footprints of biogeographic history and artificial introductions

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-179

  Hale, Marie L ^a   Lurz, Peter W W ^a   Wolff, Kirsten ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial introductions; genetic introgression; Sciurus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RODENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CAROLINENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4043102052     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000030001.86288.12     Document Type: Article

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