Genetic clustering methods reveal bull trout (salvelinus confluentus) fine-scale population structure as a spatially nested hierarchy

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1421-1433

  Warnock, Will G ^a   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^a   Taylor, Eric B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bull trout; Genetic clustering; Migration; Population structure; Salmonid; Units of conservation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALMONID; SPAWNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS;

EID: 77953914172     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9969-y     Document Type: Article

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