Comment. Crying wolf: Concluding that wolves were not restored

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-66

  Mech, L David ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLF; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CANIDAE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GREAT LAKES REGION; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; WOLVES;

EID: 63249101977     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0440     Document Type: Note

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