Threatened populations of the Australian squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) show evidence of evolutionary distinctiveness on a Late Pleistocene timescale

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2393-2407

  Pavlova, Alexandra ^a   Walker, Faith M ^a,b   van der Ree, Rodney ^c   Cesarini, Silvana ^a   Taylor, Andrea C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Gene flow; Petaurus norfolcensis; Phylogeography; Population dynamics; Squirrel glider

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION STATUS; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MARSUPIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TIMESCALE; WOODLAND; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

PETAURUS NORFOLCENSIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 78049395134     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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