Feeding diets of the Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus) based on a 202 bp rbcL sequence analysis

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 851-856

  Kim, Baek Jun ^a,b   Lee, Nam Sook ^a   Lee, Sang Don ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Browser; Feeding diet; Korean water deer; Phylogeny; rbcL; Similarity

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DEER; DICOTYLEDON; DIET; FECES; FEEDING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RARE SPECIES; SUBSPECIES;

FAR EAST;

ASTERACEAE; BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE; FAGACEAE; HYDROPOTES INERMIS; HYDROPOTES INERMIS ARGYROPUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POLYGONACEAE;

EID: 79955833022     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0192-2     Document Type: Article

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