Article
Demographic study of a wild house sparrow population by DNA fingerprinting.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Wetton J H, Carter R E, Parkin D T, Walters D
Abstract excerpt
Over the past twenty years, several techniques from biochemical and molecular genetics, such as enzyme electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing, have been widely and successfully applied to the study of population differentiation and evolution. However, they have been less applicable to demographic problems such as assigning parentage to individuals within a population. This stems from a general weakness of data...
Topics
- Animals
- Birds
- DNA
- DNA, Recombinant
- DNA, Satellite
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Male
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Nucleotide Mapping