Article
Population structure of an endemic vulnerable species, the Jamaican boa (Epicrates subflavus).
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2008
Tzika Athanasia C, Koenig Susan, Miller Ricardo, Garcia Gerardo, Remy Christophe, Milinkovitch Michel C
Abstract excerpt
The Jamaican boa (Epicrates subflavus; also called Yellow boa) is an endemic species whose natural populations greatly and constantly declined since the late 19th century, mainly because of predation by introduced species, human persecution, and habitat destruction. In-situ conservation of the Jamaican boa is seriously hindered by the lack of information on demographic and ecological parameters as well as by a...
Topics
- Animals
- Boidae
- Cytochromes b
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Jamaica
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Analysis, DNA