Genetic evidence for multiple introduction events of raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Spain

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 687-698

  Alda, Fernando ^a,d   Ruiz López, María José ^b   García, Francisco José ^c   Gompper, Matthew E ^b   Eggert, Lori S ^b   García, Jesús T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c BIOTA   (Spain)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Founder population size; Genetic variation; Invasion; Procyon lotor; Raccoon; Spain

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUSTELID; RANGE EXPANSION; SUBPOPULATION;

HENARES RIVER; JARAMA RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 84874223546     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0318-6     Document Type: Article

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