Conservation genetics and management implications for European grayling, Thymallus thymallus: Synthesis of phylogeography and population genetics

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-51

  Gum, Bernhard ^a   Gross, R ^b   Geist, J ^c  

^a Fisheries Research Station Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolutionary significant units; Genetic diversity; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Salmonids

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DECLINE; RIVER SYSTEM; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

SALMONIDAE; THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 63549089027     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2008.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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