A rapid, strong, and convergent genetic response to urban habitat fragmentation in four divergent and widespread vertebrates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Delaney, Kathleen Semple ^a,b   Riley, Seth P D ^b   Fisher, Robert N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBAN RENEWAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77958526424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012767     Document Type: Article

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