Hybridization versus conservation: Are domestic cats threatening the genetic integrity of wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris) in Iberian Peninsula?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1505, 2008, Pages 2953-2961

  Oliveira, Rita ^a,b   Godinho, Raquel ^a   Randi, Ettore ^c   Alves, Paulo C ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian admixture analysis; Conservation genetics; Felis silvestris; Hybridization; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; GENETIC MARKER; HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

FELIS CATUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS;

EID: 48749128008     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0052     Document Type: Article

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