North-South Differentiation and a Region of High Diversity in European Wolves (Canis lupus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Stronen, Astrid V ^a   Jedrzejewska, Bogumiła ^a   Pertoldi, Cino ^b,c,d   Demontis, Ditte ^b   Randi, Ettore ^c,e   Niedziałkowska, Magdalena ^a   Pilot, Małgorzata ^f   Sidorovich, Vadim E ^g   Dykyy, Ihor ^h   Kusak, Josip ⁱ   Tsingarska, Elena ^j   Kojola, Ilpo ^k   Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^l,m   Ornicans, Aivars ⁿ   Lobkov, Vladimir A ^o   Dumenko, Vitalii ^p   Czarnomska, Sylwia D ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG ZOO   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^f MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^g INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

^h IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^j Balkani Wildlife Society   (Bulgaria)

^k FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^l ARCTUROS Civil Society for the Protection and Management of Wildlife and the Natural Environment   (Greece)

^m NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

ⁿ LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^o ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^p Biosphere Reserve Askania Nova   (Ukraine)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELARUS; BULGARIA; CANIS LUPUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FINLAND; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GREECE; HETEROZYGOSITY; LATVIA; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOLF;

ANIMALS; EUROPE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WOLVES;

EID: 84885409685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076454     Document Type: Article

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