The walk is never random: Subtle landscape effects shape gene flow in a continuous white-tailed deer population in the Midwestern United States

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 4190-4205

  Robinson, Stacie J ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^a   Lopez, Davin L ^b   Shelton, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

generalized linear model; landscape genetics; model selection; spatial ordination; white tailed deer

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEER; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEER; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; ILLINOIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84865467546     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05681.x     Document Type: Article

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