Integrating multiple analytical approaches to spatially delineate and characterize genetic population structure: An application to boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in central Canada

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2131-2143

  Ball, Mark C ^a,d   Finnegan, Laura ^a   Manseau, Micheline ^b,c   Wilson, Paul ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assignment test; Bayesian; Faeces; Population structure; Range delineation; Rangifer tarandus

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVITY; DEER; FECES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

CANADA;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 78049410286     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0099-3     Document Type: Article

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