Mid-Holocene decline in African buffalos inferred from Bayesian coalescent-based analyses of microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4845-4858

  Heller, R ^a   Lorenzen, E D ^a   Okello, J B A ^b,c   Masembe, C ^b   Siegismund, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coalescent; Demographic history; Population decline; Syncerus caffer

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUFFALO; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BUFFALOES; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BOS; SYNCERUS CAFFER;

EID: 55849123330     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03961.x     Document Type: Article

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