Limited Population Structure, Genetic Drift and Bottlenecks Characterise an Endangered Bird Species in a Dynamic, Fire-Prone Ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Sarah M ^a,b   Harrisson, Katherine A ^b   Clarke, Rohan H ^b   Bennett, Andrew F ^a   Sunnucks, Paul ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; FIRE; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STIPITURUS MALLEE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STIPITURUS MALLEE; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FIRES; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876576631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059732     Document Type: Article

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