Genetic analyses reveal hybridization but no hybrid swarm in one of the world's rarest birds

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5090-5100

  Steeves, Tammy E ^a   Maloney, Richard F ^b   Hale, Marie L ^a   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a   Gemmell, Neil J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

conservation; hybridization; introgression; kak1 ; outbreeding depression; poaka

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRD; CHIMERA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; CHIMERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEW ZEALAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS; HIMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; HIMANTOPUS NOVAEZELANDIAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649562537     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04895.x     Document Type: Article

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