The effect of landscape features on population genetic structure in Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) implies an anthropogenic genetic discontinuity

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3831-3846

  Liu, Zhijin ^a   Ren, Baoping ^a   Wu, Ruidong ^b,c   Zhao, Liang ^a,d,e   Hao, Yanli ^a,d   Wang, Boshi ^a,d   Wei, Fuwen ^a   Long, Yongcheng ^b   Li, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e SUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic genetic discontinuity; Conservation; Landscape genetics; Microsatellite loci; Rhinopithecus bieti; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; COLOBINAE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIBET;

PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX BIETI;

EID: 70349110836     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04330.x     Document Type: Article

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