Genetic consequences of forest fragmentation for a highly specialized arboreal mammal - The edible dormouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Fietz, Joanna ^a   Tomiuk, Jürgen ^b   Loeschcke, Volker ^b   Weis Dootz, Tanja ^c   Segelbacher, Gernot ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; GLIS GLIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; INBREEDING; MAMMALS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYOXIDAE; TREES;

EID: 84894633809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088092     Document Type: Article

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