Conservation genetics of the lion: New approaches to species conservation

Genetic Diversity: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 61-82

  Bertola, Laura ^a,b   Vrieling, Klaas ^a,b   de Iongh, Hans ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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