Why the Indian subcontinent holds the key to global tiger recovery

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Mondol, Samrat ^a   Karanth, K Ullas ^b,c   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c Centre for Wildlife Studies   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL PERIOD; INDIA; INDIAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RACE; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TIGER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TIGERS;

EID: 70149096020     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000585     Document Type: Article

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