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Tigers of Sundarbans in India: is the population a separate conservation unit?
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Singh Sujeet Kumar, Mishra Sudhanshu, Aspi Jouni, Kvist Laura, Nigam Parag, Pandey Puneet, Sharma Reeta, Goyal Surendra Prakash
Abstract excerpt
The Sundarbans tiger inhabits a unique mangrove habitat and are morphologically distinct from the recognized tiger subspecies in terms of skull morphometrics and body size. Thus, there is an urgent need to assess their ecological and genetic distinctiveness and determine if Sundarbans tigers should be defined and managed as separate conservation unit. We utilized nine microsatellites and 3 kb from four...
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