Species identification and genetic structure of threatened seahorses in Gran Canaria Island (Spain) using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2431-2436

  López, Almudena ^a   Vera, Manuel ^a   Otero Ferrer, Francisco ^b   Pardo, Belén G ^a   Martínez, Paulino ^a   Molina, Lucía ^b   Bouza, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic structure; Hippocampus guttulatus; Hippocampus hippocampus; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Species identification

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRID; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEOST;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SPAIN;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); HIPPOCAMPUS GUTTULATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 78049357331     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0116-6     Document Type: Article

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