Going coastal: Shared evolutionary history between coastal British Columbia and Southeast Alaska wolves (canis lupus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Weckworth, Byron V ^a   Dawson, Natalie G ^b   Talbot, Sandra L ^c   Flamme, Melanie J ^d   Cook, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANIS LUPUS; COASTAL PLAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; WOLF; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; WOLVES;

EID: 79955762927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019582     Document Type: Article

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