North American montane red foxes: Expansion, fragmentation, and the origin of the Sacramento Valley red fox

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1523-1539

  Sacks, Benjamin N ^a,b   Statham, Mark J ^a,c   Perrine, John D ^d   Wisely, Samantha M ^c   Aubry, Keith B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Genetic structure; Phylogeography; Red fox; Sacramento Valley; Subspecies; V. v. patwin; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BODY SIZE; CANID; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION SIZE;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 77953905415     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0053-4     Document Type: Article

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