High mitochondrial and nuclear genetic diversity in one of the world's most endangered seabirds, the Chatham Island Taiko (Pterodroma magentae)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1293-1301

  Lawrence, Hayley A ^a   Taylor, Graeme A ^b   Millar, Craig D ^c   Lambert, David M ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Control region duplication; Genetic variation; Mitochondrial DNA; Multilocus DNA profiling; Procellariidae

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARENTAGE; RARE SPECIES; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; CHATHAM ISLAND; CHATHAM ISLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA MAGENTAE;

EID: 50249109057     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9471-3     Document Type: Article

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