Temporally stable genetic variability and dynamic kinship structure in a fluctuating population of the root vole Microtus oeconomus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2800-2812

  Pilot, MaŁgorzata ^a   Da̧browski, MichaŁ J ^a   Jancewicz, Elzbieta ^b   Schtickzelle, Nicolas ^c   Gliwicz, Joanna ^a  

^a MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arvicolid rodents; fluctuating population; kin structure; temporal genetic variability

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; POLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

ARVICOLINAE; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954291465     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04692.x     Document Type: Article

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