Range-wide genetic connectivity of the hawaiian monk seal and implications for translocation;Conectividad Genética en el Área de Distribución de Monachus schauinslandi e Implicaciones para la Translocación

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-132

  Schultz, Jennifer K ^a   Baker, Jason D ^b   Toonen, Robert J ^a   Harting, Albert L ^c   Bowen, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Harting Biological Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Pinniped; Population connectivity; Stock structure; Translocation

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CONNECTIVITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PINNIPED; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOCA; PREDATION; SHARK; STARVATION; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; HAWAII; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEALS, EARLESS; SHARKS; STARVATION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; MONACHUS SCHAUINSLANDI; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 78751659821     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01615.x     Document Type: Article

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