Comparative assessment of genetic and morphological variation at an extensive hybrid zone between two wild cats in southern Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Trigo, Tatiane C ^a   Tirelli, Flávia P ^b   De Freitas, Thales R O ^a   Eizirik, Eduardo ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Instituto Pró Carnívoros   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIOME; BODY SIZE; BRAZIL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC PURITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRID CAT; HYBRID ZONE; LEOPARDUS GEOFFROYI; LEOPARDUS GUTTULUS; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FELIDAE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FELIS SILVESTRIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; FELIDAE; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84907459229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108469     Document Type: Article

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