Comparative analyses of effective population size within and among species: Ranid frogs as a case study

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2927-2945

  Phillipsen, Ivan C ^a   Funk, W Chris ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^c   Monsen, Kirsten J ^d   Blouin, Michael S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Conservation genetics; Genetic diversity; Population genetics; Ranidae

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FROG; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROG; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GEOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LITHOBATES; RANA PRETIOSA; RANIDAE;

EID: 80053450461     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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