Variety matters: Adaptive genetic diversity and parasite load in two mouse opossums from the Brazilian Atlantic forest

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2001-2013

  Meyer Lucht, Yvonne ^a   Otten, Celine ^a   Püttker, Thomas ^a   Pardini, Renata ^b   Metzger, Jean Paul ^b   Sommer, Simone ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gracilinanus microtarsus; Major histocompatibility complex; Marmosops incanus; Mata Atl ntica; Neotropical marsupials; Pathogen driven selection

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PARASITE INTENSITY; RODENT;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

DIDELPHIDAE; GRACILINANUS MICROTARSUS; MAMMALIA; MARMOSA; MARMOSOPS INCANUS; METATHERIA; VERMES;

EID: 77956882873     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0093-9     Document Type: Article

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