Siberian tiger's recent population bottleneck in the Russian Far East revealed by microsatellite markers

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 722-726

  Alasaad, Samer ^a,b,d   Soriguer, Ramón C ^a   Chelomina, Galina ^b   Sushitsky, Yury Petrovich ^c   Fickel, Joerns ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c Khankaisky State Biosphere Nature Reserve   (Russian Federation)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amur tiger; Animal conservation; Effective population size; Panthera tigris altaica; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CENSUS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROZYGOSITY; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

SIBERIA;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS ALTAICA; PANTHERA TIGRIS LONGIPILIS;

EID: 80053612077     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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