Isolation by distance, resistance and/or clusters? Lessons learned from a forest-dwelling carnivore inhabiting a heterogeneous landscape

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 5110-5129

  Ruiz Gonzalez, Aritz ^a,b   Cushman, Samuel A ^c   Madeira, María José ^a   Randi, Ettore ^b,d   Gómez Moliner, Benjamín J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; isolation by cluster; isolation by distance; isolation by landscape resistance; landscape genetics; Martes martes; reciprocal causal modelling

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION GENETICS; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORESTS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUSTELIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EID: 84945207774     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13392     Document Type: Article

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