Article
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....
Topics
- Animals
- Carnivora
- Cluster Analysis
- Computer Simulation
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Geography
- Linear Models
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Phylogeny