Molecular verification of the subspecies status of the Mauritanian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia balsaci

Ardea

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-136

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Van Der Velde, Marco ^a   El Hacen, El Hacen Mohamed ^a,c   Lok, Tamar ^a,b   Overdijk, Otto ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Parc National du Banc d'Arguin (PNBA)   (Mauritania)

^d Werkgroep Lepelaar ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dispersal; genetic population structure; Mauritania; microsatellites; philopatry; phylogeography; subspeciation; Threshkiornitidae; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; PHILOPATRY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SUBSPECIES; WADER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BANC D'ARGUIN NATIONAL PARK; MAURITANIA; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

AVES; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA LEUCORODIA; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

EID: 84871337628     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.100.0204     Document Type: Article

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