Bucking the Trend in Wolf-Dog Hybridization: First Evidence from Europe of Hybridization between Female Dogs and Male Wolves

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hindrikson, Maris ^a   Männil, Peep ^b   Ozolins, Janis ^c   Krzywinski, Andrzej ^d   Saarma, Urmas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Estonian Environment Information Centre   (Estonia)

^c LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^d Wildlife Park Kadzidlowo ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ESTONIA; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; LATVIA; MALE; MATING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; WOLF; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA, SATELLITE; DOGS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; WOLVES;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 84867034288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046465     Document Type: Article

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