Dispersal and population structure at different spatial scales in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys australis

BMC Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mora, Matías S ^a   Mapelli, Fernando J ^a   Gaggiotti, Oscar E ^b   Kittlein, Marcelo J ^a   Lessa, Enrique P ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOMYS AUSTRALIS; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RODENT; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS;

CTENOMYS AUSTRALIS; RODENTIA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77649171861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-9     Document Type: Article

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