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Evidence for cryptic genetic discontinuity in a recently expanded sika deer population on the Boso Peninsula, central Japan.
Zoological science - 1 Jan 2009
Yoshio Masanobu, Asada Masahiko, Ochiai Keiji, Goka Koichi, Miyashita Tadashi, Tatsuta Haruki
Abstract excerpt
The genetic structure of populations is not necessarily reflected in the geographical proximity of individuals, because environmental gradients such as those of vegetation or climate can function as cryptic barriers to gene flow. We examined polymorphisms at nine microsatellite loci to determine and discuss whether a distinctive genetic structure was detectable in a spatially continuous population of the sika...
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