Temporal genetic samples indicate small effective population size of the endangered yellow-eyed penguin

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 539-546

  Boessenkool, Sanne ^a,b   Star, Bastiaan ^b   Seddon, Philip J ^a   Waters, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Island; Megadyptes antipodes; Microsatellites; Museum specimens; New Zealand; Temporal method

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC MARKER; IMMIGRATION; MUSEUM; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 77952093963     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9988-8     Document Type: Article

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