Do Major Roads Reduce Gene Flow in Urban Bird Populations?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Shuping ^a   Suo, Mingli ^a   Liu, Shenglin ^a   Liang, Wei ^b  

^a MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGHWAY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; SPARROW; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHINA; CITIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPARROWS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84885831986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077026     Document Type: Article

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