High variation and very low differentiation in wide ranging plains zebra (Equus quagga): Insights from mtDNA and microsatellites

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2812-2824

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Equus quagga; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Population structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HORSE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EQUIDAE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY;

EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS QUAGGA; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; SYNCERUS CAFFER; UNGULATA;

EID: 44849131004     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03781.x     Document Type: Article

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