50,000 years of genetic uniformity in the critically endangered Iberian lynx

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3785-3795

  Rodríguez, Ricardo ^a   Ramírez, Oscar ^b   Valdiosera, Cristina E ^a,c   García, Nuria ^a   Alda, Fernando ^f   Madurell Malapeira, Joan ^e   Marmi, Josep ^e   Doadrio, Ignacio ^f   Willerslev, Eske ^c   Götherström, Anders ^a,g   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a   Thomas, Mark G ^d,g   Lalueza Fox, Carles ^b   Dalén, Love ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^f MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coalescence; female effective population size; Lynx pardinus; mitochondrial DNA; mutation rate

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LYNX; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LYNX; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS;

EID: 84860389536     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05231.x     Document Type: Article

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