Genetic evidence for past hybridisation between domestic pigs and English wild boars

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1355-1364

  Frantz, Alain C ^a,b   Massei, Giovanna ^c   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admixture analysis; Introduction; Introgression; Invasive species; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION; FERAL ORGANISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INTROGRESSION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITOCHONDRION; NATIVE SPECIES; PIG; WILD POPULATION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84865429895     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-012-0379-1     Document Type: Article

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