Genetic impact of a severe El Niño event on Galápagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Steinfartz, Sebastian ^a,d   Glaberman, Scott ^a   Lanterbecq, Deborah ^a   Marquez, Cruz ^b   Rassmann, Kornelia ^c   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION   (Ecuador)

^c Achmühle ^*  (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LIZARD; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; VOLCANO; ANIMAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENETICS; WEATHER;

AMBLYRHYNCHUS CRISTATUS; IGUANA; IGUANIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IGUANAS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; WEATHER;

EID: 44949107609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001285     Document Type: Article

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