Avoidance of extinction through nonexistence: The use of museum specimens and molecular genetics to determine the taxonomic status of an endangered freshwater crayfish

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 177-189

  Crandall, Keith A ^a   Robison, Henry W ^b   Buhay, Jennifer E ^c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arkansas; Conservation; Crayfish; Endangered Species Act; Nested clade phylogeographic analysis; Population genetics; Species diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION STATUS; CRAYFISH; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUSEUM; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; RED LIST; TAXONOMY;

ARKANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ASTACOIDEA; PROCAMBARUS; PROCAMBARUS LIBERORUM; PROCAMBARUS REIMERI;

EID: 58149463581     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9546-9     Document Type: Article

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