Multilocus assignment analyses reveal multiple units and rare migration events in the recently expanded yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2390-2400

  Boessenkool, Sanne ^a   Star, Bastiaan ^b   Waters, Jonathan M ^a   Seddon, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Assignment test; Dispersal; Genetic structure; Microsatellites; New Zealand; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; PENGUIN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEW ZEALAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHENISCIDAE;

MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 65949113400     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04203.x     Document Type: Article

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