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Cryptic population structure in a large, mobile mammalian predator: the Scandinavian lynx.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2003
Rueness E K, Jorde P E, Hellborg L, Stenseth N C, Ellegren H, Jakobsen K S
Abstract excerpt
The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is an example of a species that has gone through a severe bottleneck, leading to near extinction in Scandinavia around 1930-- a pattern shared with several other large carnivorous mammals. Here we extend previous genetic analyses of northern European lynx, confirming that lynx from the Scandinavian Peninsula represent a distinct clade differing clearly from European conspecifics....
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