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Greece: a Balkan subrefuge for a remnant red deer (cervus elaphus) population.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Karaiskou Nikoleta, Tsakogiannis Alexander, Gkagkavouzis Konstantinos, Papika Sylvia, Latsoudis Panagiotis, Kavakiotis Ioannis, Pantis John, Abatzopoulos Theodore J, Triantaphyllidis Costas, Triantafyllidis Alexander
Abstract excerpt
A number of phylogeographic studies have revealed the existence of multiple ice age refugia within the Balkan Peninsula, marking it as a biodiversity hotspot. Greece has been reported to harbor genetically differentiated lineages from the rest of Balkans for a number of mammal species. We therefore searched for distinct red deer lineages in Greece, by analyzing 78 samples originating from its last population in...
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