Diffusion of nuclear and mitochondrial genes across a zone of secondary contact in the maritime shrew, Sorex maritimensis: Implications for the conservation of a Canadian endemic mammal

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 851-857

  Dawe, Kimberly L ^a   Shafer, Aaron B A ^a   Herman, Thomas B ^b   Stewart, Donald T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control region; Disjunct populations; Evolutionary significant units; Historical biogeography; Inter SINE fingerprints

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GLACIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CANADA; CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

MAMMALIA; SOREX MARITIMENSIS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 67649352849     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9645-7     Document Type: Article

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