Genetic approaches to the conservation of migratory bats: A study of the eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis)

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Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Vonhof, Maarten J ^a   Russell, Amy L ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Coalescent methods; Conservation genetics; Effective population size; Migration; Phylogeography; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA EXTRACTION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FLOW; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LASIURUS BOREALIS; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

LASIURUS BOREALIS;

EID: 84930678428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.983     Document Type: Article

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