Can genetic data confirm or refute historical records? The island invasion of the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2243-2251

  Barun, Arijana ^a   Niemiller, Matthew L ^a   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^a   Fordyce, James A ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic phylogeography; Founder size; Introduced populations; Invasive species; Island colonization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SMALL MAMMAL;

HERPESTES AUROPUNCTATUS; HERPESTES JAVANICUS;

EID: 84884586744     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0447-6     Document Type: Article

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