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Genetic structure and demographic history should inform conservation: Chinese cobras currently treated as homogenous show population divergence.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Lin Long-Hui, Qu Yan-Fu, Li Hong, Zhou Kai-Ya, Ji Xiang
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An understanding of population structure and genetic diversity is crucial for wildlife conservation and for determining the integrity of wildlife populations. The vulnerable Chinese cobra (Naja atra) has a distribution from the mouth of the Yangtze River down to northern Vietnam and Laos, within which several large mountain ranges and water bodies may influence population structure. We combined 12 microsatellite...
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