Response of a southern temperate marsupial, the Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii), to historical and contemporary forest fragmentation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3291-3306

  MacQueen, Peggy ^a   Goldizen, Anne W ^a   Seddon, Jennifer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Macropod; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Tasmania; Temperate forest; Thylogale

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MARSUPIALIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TASMANIA; TREES;

METATHERIA; THYLOGALE; THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII;

EID: 68149112202     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04262.x     Document Type: Article

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