The Balkans and the colonization of Europe: The post-glacial range expansion of the wild boar, Sus scrofa

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 713-723

  Alexandri, Panoraia ^a   Triantafyllidis, Alexander ^a   Papakostas, Spiros ^a   Chatzinikos, Evangelos ^b   Platis, Petros ^b   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos ^c   Larson, Greger ^d   Abatzopoulos, Theodore J ^a   Triantaphyllidis, Costas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b 4th Hunting Federation of Sterea Hellas ^*  (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balkan Peninsula; European wild boar; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Post glacial colonization; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; GENOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PIG; POSTGLACIAL; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; BALKANS; BULGARIA; GREECE; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SAMOS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84858699683     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02636.x     Document Type: Article

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