Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino's vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1783-1794

  Buzan, Elena V ^a   Krystufek, Boris ^a   Bryja, Josef ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Metapopulation; Population structure; Spatial genetics

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; METAPOPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT;

BALKANS; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; ZELENGORA;

CHIONOMYS NIVALIS; DINAROMYS BOGDANOVI; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956872581     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0071-2     Document Type: Article

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