Three reciprocally monophyletic mtDNA lineages elucidate the taxonomic status of Grant's gazelles

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 593-601

  Lorenzen, Eline D ^a   Arctander, Peter ^b   Siegismund, Hans R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Grant's gazelle; mtDNA; Nanger granti; Phylogeography; Population structure

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RUMINANT; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

GAZELLA;

EID: 42549131845     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9375-2     Document Type: Article

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