Genetic monitoring and complex population dynamics: Insights from a 12-year study of the rio grande silvery minnow

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 553-574

  Osborne, Megan J ^a   Carson, Evan W ^a   Turner, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Genetic monitoring; Population genetics empirical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866013257     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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