Big mountains but small barriers: Population genetic structure of the Chinese wood frog (Rana chensinensis) in the Tsinling and Daba Mountain region of northern China

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhan, Aibin ^a   Li, Cheng ^b   Fu, Jinzhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS;

AMPHIBIA; RANA CHENSINENSIS; RANA SYLVATICA;

ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHINA; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC STRUCTURES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; RANIDAE;

EID: 65649105482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-17     Document Type: Article

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