Inferring the ancestry of African wild dogs that returned to the Serengeti-Mara

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 525-533

  Marsden, Clare D ^a,b,c   Wayne, Robert K ^d   Mable, Barbara K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Local extinction; Lycaon pictus; Re colonisation; Serengeti ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CANID; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; RECOLONIZATION; RETURN MIGRATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

MARA; SERENGETI; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 84857954824     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0304-z     Document Type: Article

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