Between introgression events and fragmentation, islands are the last refuge for the American crocodile in Caribbean Mexico

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1321-1333

  MacHkour M'Rabet, Salima ^a   Hénaut, Yann ^a   Charruau, Pierre ^a   Gevrey, Muriel ^b   Winterton, Peter ^c   Legal, Luc ^d,e  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d Université de Toulouse   (France)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CROCODILIAN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INTROGRESSION; POLYMORPHISM; REFUGE; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

CARIBBEAN COAST [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLUS ACUTUS; CROCODYLUS MORELETII; SIA;

EID: 64249101027     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1174-5     Document Type: Article

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