Preliminary Genetic Analysis Supports Cave Populations as Targets for Conservation in the Endemic Endangered Puerto Rican Boa (Boidae: Epicrates inornatus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Puente Rolón, Alberto R ^a   Reynolds, R Graham ^b   Revell, Liam J ^b  

^a Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOIDAE; CAVE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PUERTO RICAN BOA; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84877760148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063899     Document Type: Article

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