Scale-dependent effects of a heterogeneous landscape on genetic differentiation in the Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)

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Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Blair, Mary E ^a,b   Melnick, Don J ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LANDSCAPE GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PLANTATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RIVER; SAIMIRI OERSTEDII; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SAIMIRI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84865061334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043027     Document Type: Article

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