The arctic: Glacial refugium or area of secondary contact? Inference from the population genetic structure of the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), with Implications for management

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 238-246

  Tigano, Anna ^a   Damus, Martin ^a,c   Birt, Tim P ^a   Morris Pocock, Jamie A ^a,d   Artukhin, Yuri B ^b   Friesen, Vicki L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^d Health Science Department St Lawrence College   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; population genetics; refugium; thick billed murre; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GILL; HAPLOTYPE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URIA LOMVIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

URIA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84929582274     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esv016     Document Type: Article

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