Eurasian otters, Lutra lutra, have a dominant mtDNA haplotype from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 430-435

  Ferrando, Ainhoa ^a,b   Ponsà, Montserrat ^a   Marmi, Josep ^b   Domingo Roura, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BELARUS; CARNIVORA; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OTTERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CARNIVORA; LUTRA; LUTRA LUTRA; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 4644256143     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esh066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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