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European mink-polecat hybridization events: hazards from natural process?
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Lodé T, Guiral G, Peltier D
Abstract excerpt
Determining the significance of hybridization events raises essential issues both in conservation and in evolutionary biology. Here, we report a genetic investigation of sympatric polecat and endangered European mink populations. Although the two species were morphologically very similar, the European mink and the polecat were easily discriminated from allozymes and microsatellites and showed a high level of...
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