Phylogeography of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus): How many populations and how many taxa?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1137-1149

  Garcia Rodriguez, A I ^a,b   Bowen, B W ^b   Domning, D ^c   Mignucci Giannoni, A A ^d   Marmontel, M ^e   Montoya Ospina, R A ^f   Morales Vela, B ^g   Rudin, M ^h   Bonde, R K ^a   McGuire, P M ^b  

^a USGS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e Projecto Mamirauá ^*  (Brazil)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^h University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Marine mammal; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular systematics; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN REGION; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FLORIDA; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

MAMMALIA; TRICHECHUS INUNGUIS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS;

EID: 7344225459     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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