Separating wild from domestic American mink neovison vison based on skull morphometries

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 266-277

  Tamlin, Ashley L ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^b   Hackett, David F ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain size; Dollos law; Domestication; Introgression; Morphometrics; Neovison vison; Outbreeding depression; Pedomorphosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 74549146230     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/08-004     Document Type: Article

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