Genetic structure of the northwestern Russian wolf populations and gene flow between Russia and Finland

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 815-826

  Aspi, Jouni ^a   Roininen, Eeva ^a   Kiiskilä, Jukka ^a   Ruokonen, Minna ^a   Kojola, Ilpo ^b   Bljudnik, Leo ^c   Danilov, Pjotr ^c   Heikkinen, Samuli ^b   Pulliainen, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Barrier to gene flow; Bottleneck; Effective population size; Genetic differentiation; Large carnivore; Migration

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANID; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; EURASIA; KARELIA [(ADS) RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CANIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67649382336     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9642-x     Document Type: Article

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