Two behavioural traits promote fine-scale species segregation and moderate hybridisation in a recovering sympatric fur seal population

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lancaster, Melanie L ^a,b   Goldsworthy, Simon D ^a,c   Sunnucks, Paul ^a,d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; PINNIPED; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SITE FIDELITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; SYMPATRY;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE ISLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953515765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-143     Document Type: Article

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