Genetic restoration of a threatened population of greater prairie-chickens

Biological Conservation

Volumn 174, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-19

  Bateson, Zachary W ^a   Dunn, Peter O ^a   Hull, Scott D ^b   Henschen, Amberleigh E ^a   Johnson, Jeff A ^c   Whittingham, Linda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Conservation genetics; MHC; Neutral genetic diversity; Prairie grouse; Supplemental translocations

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GAMEBIRD; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INTROGRESSION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84898655991     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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