Genetic structure of the Danish red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 688-701

  Nielsen, Elsemarie Kragh ^a,b   Olesen, Carsten Riis ^b   Pertoldi, Cino ^a,c   Gravlund, Peter ^d   Barker, James S F ^e   Mucci, Nadia ^f   Randi, Ettore ^f   Loeschcke, Volker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Kaloe   (Denmark)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^f Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Bottleneck; Demographic history; Effective population size; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Population structure

Indexed keywords

DEER; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 56649104944     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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