Regional Differences in Seasonal Timing of Rainfall Discriminate between Genetically Distinct East African Giraffe Taxa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Thomassen, Henri A ^a,b   Freedman, Adam H ^a,c   Brown, David M ^a   Buermann, Wolfgang ^a,d   Jacobs, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CANONICAL VARIATES ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; GIRAFFA RETICULATA; GIRAFFA TIPPELSKIRCHI; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TOPOGRAPHY; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVIDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885981561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077191     Document Type: Article

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