Population structure as revealed by mtDNA and microsatellites in northern fur seals, Callorhinus ursinus, throughout their range

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dickerson, Bobette R ^a   Ream, Rolf R ^a   Vignieri, Sacha N ^b   Bentzen, Paul ^c  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CALLORHINUS; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; PINNIPEDIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; GENETIC LOCI; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956270892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010671     Document Type: Article

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