Invited reply. Wishful thinking: Imagining that the current Great Lakes wolf is the same entity that existed historically

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-68

  Leonard, Jennifer A ^a   Wayne, Robert K ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLF;

EID: 65949092327     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0533     Document Type: Note

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