Genetic consequences of trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) reintroductions

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 257-268

  Ransler, Findley A ^a,b   Quinn, Thomas W ^a   Oyler McCance, Sara J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Genetic diversity; Microsatellite; Reintroduction; Translocation; Trumpeter swan

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; REINTRODUCTION; RELOCATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION; WATERFOWL;

AVES; CYGNUS BUCCINATOR;

EID: 78650980293     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0137-1     Document Type: Article

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