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Mitochondrial DNA control region diversity in the endangered blue chaffinch, Fringilla teydea.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2000
Pestano J, Brown R P, Rodriguez F, Moreno A
Abstract excerpt
The blue chaffinch (Fringilla teydea) is found only on the two central Canary Islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, where it is restricted to pine forest habitat. It is reasonably abundant on the latter island but endangered on the former. Here, sequence variation was studied in a fragment spanning domains I and II of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. Phylogenetic analysis of all haplotypes with a F....
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