Limited genetic diversity preceded extinction of the Tasmanian tiger

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Menzies, Brandon R ^a,b   Renfree, Marilyn B ^b   Heider, Thomas ^c   Mayer, Frieder ^d   Hildebrandt, Thomas B ^a   Pask, Andrew J ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARSUPIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TASMANIAN TIGER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TIGERS;

EID: 84859997831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035433     Document Type: Article

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