Genetic evidence of tiger population structure and migration within an isolated and fragmented landscape in northwest India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Reddy, Patlolla Anuradha ^a   Gour, Digpal Singh ^a   Bhavanishankar, Maradani ^a   Jaggi, Kanika ^a   Hussain, Shaik Mohammed ^a   Harika, Katakam ^a   Shivaji, Sisinthy ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDIA; LANDSCAPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TIGER; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

ALLELES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC LOCI; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIGERS;

EID: 84855698563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029827     Document Type: Article

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