Heterozygosity of the Yellowstone wolves.

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  • Ivana Jankovic
  • Bridgett M vonHoldt
  • Noah A Rosenberg
چکیده

IVANA JANKOVIC,* BRIDGETT M. V O N HOLDT† and NOAH A. ROSENBERG*‡ *Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 2017 Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, †University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, ‡Department of Human Genetics and the Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, 2017 Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Molecular ecology

دوره 19 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010