Reproductive isolation, evolutionary distinctiveness and setting conservation priorities: The case of European lake whitefish and the endangered North Sea houting (Coregonus spp.)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hansen, Michael M ^a   Fraser, Dylan J ^b   Als, Thomas D ^a   Mensberg, Karen Lise D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SALMONID;

COREGONUS; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; COREGONUS LAVARETUS; PISCES;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH SEA; REPRODUCTION; SALMONIDAE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44349168772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-137     Document Type: Article

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