Pleistocene population expansions of Antarctic seals

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2112-2121

  Curtis, Caitlin ^a   Stewart, Brent S ^b   Karl, Stephen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HUBBS SEAWORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetically effective population size; Mitochondrial DNA; Pinniped; Theta

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOCA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SEALS, EARLESS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS; OMMATOPHOCA ROSSII; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 65549141628     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04166.x     Document Type: Article

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