Dietary differentiation and the evolution of population genetic structure in a highly mobile carnivore

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Pilot, Małgorzata ^a,b   Jedrzejewski, Włodzimierz ^c,d   Sidorovich, Vadim E ^e   Meier Augenstein, Wolfram ^f   Hoelzel, A Rus ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

^f SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15;

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; WOLF;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARNIVORY; DIET; EUROPE, EASTERN; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WOLVES;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863111069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039341     Document Type: Article

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