Contrasting genetic structuring between colonies of the World's smallest penguin, Eudyptula minor (Aves: Spheniscidae)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 893-905

  Overeem, Rebecca L ^a,b   Peucker, Amanda J ^a   Austin, Christopher M ^a,c   Dann, Peter ^b   Burridge, Christopher P ^a,d  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breeding phenology; Microsatellite; Mitochondrial DNA; Natal philopatry; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; TRANSGRESSION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BASS STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 50049099378     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9414-z     Document Type: Article

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