Strong founder effects and low genetic diversity in introduced populations of Coqui frogs

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3603-3615

  Peacock, Mary M ^a   Beard, Karen H ^b   O'Neill, Eric M ^b   Kirchoff, Veronica S ^a   Peters, Maureen B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bottlenecks; Drift; Hawaii; Invasive; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOUNDER EFFECT; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HAWAII; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PUERTO RICO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS (GENUS); ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI;

EID: 69049117354     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04308.x     Document Type: Article

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