Assessment of coyote-wolf-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 182-197

  Monzon J ^a   Kays, R ^b,c   Dykhuizen, D E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

admixture; Canis; diagnostic markers; hybridization; single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE;

ADMIXTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COYOTE; DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; WOLF;

ADMIXTURE; CANIS; DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS; HYBRIDIZATION; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COYOTES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; OHIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLVES;

EID: 84891557648     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12570     Document Type: Article

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