Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

BMC Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tsangaras, Kyriakos ^a   Ávila Arcos, María C ^b   Ishida, Yasuko ^c   Helgen, Kristofer M ^d   Roca, Alfred L ^c   Greenwood, Alex D ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; KOALA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 84867670794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-92     Document Type: Article

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