Cultural inheritance drives site fidelity and migratory connectivity in a long-distance migrant

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 5484-5496

  Harrison, Xavier A ^a,b   Tregenza, Tom ^a   Inger, Richard ^a   Colhoun, Kendrew ^c   Dawson, Deborah A ^b   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^d   Hodgson, David J ^a   Horsburgh, Gavin J ^b   McElwaine, Graham ^e   Bearhop, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

^e NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branta bernicla hrota; Brent goose; centroid; culture; genetic structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GOOSE; ICELAND; IRELAND; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GEESE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; ICELAND; IRELAND; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BRANTA; BRANTA BERNICLA HROTA;

EID: 78650168091     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04852.x     Document Type: Article

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