Pan-African Genetic Structure in the African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer): Investigating Intraspecific Divergence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Smitz, Nathalie ^a   Berthouly, Cécile ^b   Cornélis, Daniel ^b   Heller, Rasmus ^c   van Hooft, Pim ^d   Chardonnet, Philippe ^e   Caron, Alexandre ^b,f,g   Prins, Herbert ^d   van Vuuren, Bettine Jansen ^h   de Iongh, Hans ⁱ   Michaux, Johan ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Intl Found Conserv Wildl (IGF)   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

ⁱ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SYNCERUS CAFFER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BUFFALOES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874328564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056235     Document Type: Article

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