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Ecology. Quaternary refugia and persistence of biodiversityPierre Taberlet
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, , BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Science 297:2009-10. 2002
Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communitiesPierre Taberlet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex, France
Ecol Lett 15:1439-48. 2012..Species richness thus cannot act as a surrogate for genetic diversity. Our results have important consequences for implementing the CBD when designing conservation strategies...- Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcodingPierre Taberlet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 21:2045-50. 2012..The near-term future of DNA metabarcoding has an enormous potential to boost data acquisition in biodiversity research... - Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studiesPierre Taberlet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 21:1816-20. 2012..It offers the opportunity to analyse all groups of organisms using a single sampling/extraction procedure and opens the possibility to fully standardize biodiversity surveys... 
Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixturesEeva M Soininen
Department of Biology, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Front Zool 6:16. 2009..abstract:..- ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biasesEva Bellemain
National Centre for Biosystematics, University of Oslo, Norway
BMC Microbiol 10:189. 2010..We performed in silico PCR analyses with commonly used primer combinations using various ITS datasets obtained from public databases as templates... - Owl pellets as a source of DNA for genetic studies of small mammalsP Taberlet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 5:301-5. 1996..The relative efficiency of two methods of DNA extraction is estimated and discussed. Thus, owl pellets represent a non-invasive sampling technique which provides a valuable source of DNA for studying population genetics of small mammals... - Are cattle, sheep, and goats endangered species?P Taberlet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Mol Ecol 17:275-84. 2008.... - Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcodingPierre Taberlet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Nucleic Acids Res 35:e14. 2007.... - Conservation genetics of cattle, sheep, and goatsPierre Taberlet
CNRS UMR 5553, Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
C R Biol 334:247-54. 2011..Based on sound genetic characterization, urgent conservation measures must be taken to avoid an irremediable loss of farm animal genetic resources, integrating economical, sociological, and political parameters... - Noninvasive genetic tracking of the endangered Pyrenean brown bear populationP Taberlet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 6:869-76. 1997..This study demonstrates that comprehensive knowledge of endangered small populations of mammals can be obtained using noninvasive genetic sampling... - Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in EuropeP Taberlet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 7:453-64. 1998..As a consequence, molecular genetics so far appears to be of limited use in dating Quaternary events... - Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, MongoliaWasim Shehzad
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
PLoS ONE 7:e32104. 2012..7%). The findings of the present study will help to understand the feeding ecology of the snow leopard, as well as to address the conservation and management issues pertaining to this wild cat... - Carnivore diet analysis based on next-generation sequencing: application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in PakistanWasim Shehzad
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 21:1951-65. 2012..It can be applied to other carnivore species with only a slight adjustment relating to the design of the blocking oligonucleotide. It is robust and simple to implement and allows the possibility of very large-scale analyses... - Evolution and taxonomy of the wild species of the genus Ovis (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae)Hamid Reza Rezaei
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, B P 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Phylogenet Evol 54:315-26. 2010..Our results show that the evolution of the genus Ovis is a striking example of successive speciation events occurring along the migration routes propagating from the ancestral area... - Population adaptive index: a new method to help measure intraspecific genetic diversity and prioritize populations for conservationAurelie Bonin
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Conserv Biol 21:697-708. 2007..Fourth, when neutral and adaptive results conflict, additional arguments (e.g., demography, ecology, and geographic proximity) should be considered together with levels of genetic diversity to determine a conservation strategy... - Ecology and life history affect different aspects of the population structure of 27 high-alpine plantsPatrick G Meirmans
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 20:3144-55. 2011..Furthermore, we found that some summary statistics, most importantly Mantel's r and Jost's D, show different behaviour than expected based on theory. We therefore advise caution in drawing too strong conclusions from these statistics... - An in silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodesGentile Francesco Ficetola
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
BMC Genomics 11:434. 2010..CONCLUSIONS: In silico PCR could be used to improve the performance of a study, by allowing the preliminary comparison of several DNA regions in order to identify the most appropriate barcode depending on the study aims... - ecoPrimers: inference of new DNA barcode markers from whole genome sequence analysisTiayyba Riaz
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553 2233, Université Joseph Fourrier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Nucleic Acids Res 39:e145. 2011..These tests demonstrate the efficiency of ecoPrimers for inferring new barcodes fitting with diverse experimental contexts. ecoPrimers is available as an open source project at: http://www.grenoble.prabi.fr/trac/ecoPrimers... - Universal DNA-based methods for assessing the diet of grazing livestock and wildlife from fecesAnthony Pegard
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
J Agric Food Chem 57:5700-6. 2009..The pyrosequencing method allowed the identification of up to 25 taxa in a diet. These methods are complementary to the chemical methods already used. They could be applied to the control of diets and the study of food preferences... - Exonuclease activity of proofreading DNA polymerases is at the origin of artifacts in molecular profiling studiesJerome Gury
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, UMR UJF CNRS 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Electrophoresis 29:2437-44. 2008..They are more cost-effective and therefore ideally suited for high-throughput analysis; the +A tail artifact rate can be controlled by modifying the PCR primers and the reaction conditions... - Holstein's milk detection in cheeses inferred from melanocortin receptor 1 (MC1R) gene polymorphismC Maudet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
J Dairy Sci 85:707-15. 2002..This simple approach provides good reproducibility and is shown to be relatively sensitive, with a detection limit of about 1% of Holstein's milk in milk curd... - Divergent mtDNA lineages of goats in an Early Neolithic site, far from the initial domestication areasHelena Fernández
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Génomique des Populations et Biodiversité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53 F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:15375-9. 2006.... - DNA barcoding for ecologistsAlice Valentini
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Trends Ecol Evol 24:110-7. 2009..Even DNA-based diet composition can be estimated using fecal samples. Here we review the new avenues offered to ecologists by DNA barcoding, particularly in the context of new sequencing technologies... - Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of the domestic goat reveals six haplogroups with high diversitySaeid Naderi
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
PLoS ONE 2:e1012. 2007..Thus studying the present genetic diversity helps to better understand the history of domestic species... - The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individualsSaeid Naderi
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:17659-64. 2008..This last domestication center is the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today. This finding is consistent with archaeological data identifying Eastern Anatolia as an important domestication center... - Tracking genes of ecological relevance using a genome scan in two independent regional population samples of Arabis alpinaBenedicte N Poncet
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine LECA, CNRS UMR 5553, Grenoble Université, BP 53, 2233 Rue de la Piscine, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Ecol 19:2896-907. 2010..Finally, we discuss that the genomic characterization of these ecologically relevant loci, as identified in this study, opens up new perspectives for studying functional ecology in A. alpina, its relatives and other alpine plant species... - Use of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers in surveys of vertebrate diversityAurelie Bonin
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Universite Joseph Fourier, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Methods Enzymol 395:145-61. 2005..Finally, this chapter proposes a troubleshooting guide to help resolve the main technical difficulties encountered during the AFLP procedure... - Tracking earthworm communities from soil DNAFriederike Bienert
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 21:2017-30. 2012..Using the same DNA extracts, our study also illustrates the potential of environmental DNA as a tool to assess the diversity of other soil-dwelling animal taxa... - Evolutionary history of the genus Capra (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): discordance between mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome phylogeniesNathalie Pidancier
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Génomique des Populations et Biodiversité, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, B P 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:739-49. 2006..We suggest that a plausible scenario involves mtDNA introgression between ancestral taxa before the relatively recent colonization of Western Europe, the Caucasus Mountains, and East Africa by Capra populations... - Improvements of polymerase chain reaction and capillary electrophoresis single-strand conformation polymorphism methods in microbial ecology: toward a high-throughput method for microbial diversity studies in soilLucie Zinger
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Perturbations Environnementales et Xénobiotiques, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Microb Ecol 54:203-16. 2007..We conclude that the presented method, including CE-SSCP and the analyzing step, is a simple and effective technique to obtain the molecular signature of a given soil sample... - Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencingFrançois Pompanon
Université Grenoble 1, Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, UMR 5553, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 21:1931-50. 2012..Then, we consider both technical and analytical aspects of NGS diet studies. Finally, we discuss the validation of data accuracy including the viability of producing quantitative data... - Species detection using environmental DNA from water samplesGentile Francesco Ficetola
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Biol Lett 4:423-5. 2008..Combined with massive sequencing and the development of DNA barcodes that enable species identification, this approach opens new perspectives for the assessment of current biodiversity from environmental samples... - Explorative genome scan to detect candidate loci for adaptation along a gradient of altitude in the common frog (Rana temporaria)Aurelie Bonin
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Biol Evol 23:773-83. 2006..Finally, we provided some preliminary insights into the genetic basis of adaptation along an altitudinal cline in the common frog... - The dilemma of female mate selection in the brown bear, a species with sexually selected infanticideEva Bellemain
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, , BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Proc Biol Sci 273:283-91. 2006..However, male-male competition either in the form of fighting before copulation or during the post-copulatory phase, in the form of sperm competition, cannot entirely be ruled out... - Multiple maternal origins and weak phylogeographic structure in domestic goatsG Luikart
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, , , B.P. 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:5927-32. 2001..In cattle the amount is >/=50%. This weak structuring suggests extensive intercontinental transportation of goats and has intriguing implications about the importance of goats in historical human migrations and commerce... - Genotyping errors: causes, consequences and solutionsFrançois Pompanon
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, B P 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Nat Rev Genet 6:847-59. 2005..We propose a protocol for estimating error rates and recommend that these measures be systemically reported to attest the reliability of published genotyping studies... - African origins of the domestic donkeyAlbano Beja-Pereira
Lab. d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS-UJF 5553, 38041 Grenoble, France
Science 304:1781. 2004 - A new individual-based spatial approach for identifying genetic discontinuities in natural populationsS Manel
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Ecol 16:2031-43. 2007..We illustrate our approach by simulations and by analysing two empirical datasets: microsatellite data of Ursus arctos in Scandinavia, and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data of Rhododendron ferrugineum in the Alps... - Microsatellite DNA and recent statistical methods in wildlife conservation management: applications in Alpine ibex [Capra ibex(ibex)]C Maudetr
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 11:421-36. 2002..001) of almost 100 of the individuals (or trophies or carcasses) from two distant populations (especially using stucture or whichrun software)... - Phylogeography of the Alpine salamander, Salamandra atra (Salamandridae) and the influence of the Pleistocene climatic oscillations on population divergenceA Riberon
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Ecol 10:2555-60. 2001.... - Detection of cows' milk in goats' cheeses inferred from mitochondrial DNA polymorphismC Maudet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, CNRS UMR5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
J Dairy Res 68:229-35. 2001..1% of cows' milk. Analysis of an agarose gel digital image allows a rough estimation of the percentage of cows' milk used in adulteration... - Genetic structure of the forest pest Hylobius abietis on conifer plantations at different spatial scales in EuropeC Conord
GPB Population Genomics and Biodiversity, Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Heredity (Edinb) 97:46-55. 2006..Altogether, this study shows that the use of different host plants for development does not constitute a strong barrier to gene flow for H. abietis and confirms the high dispersal ability of this forest pest... - Genetic diversity in an endangered alpine plant, Eryngium alpinum L. (Apiaceae), inferred from amplified fragment length polymorphism markersM Gaudeul
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, UMR CNRS 5553, Universite J Fourier, BP 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Mol Ecol 9:1625-37. 2000..This study demonstrates that AFLP markers enable a quick and reliable assessment of intraspecific genetic variability in conservation genetics... - Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers reveal extra-pair parentage in a bird species: the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)S Questiau
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d Altitude CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, PT 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Ecol 8:1331-9. 1999..This technique allows the approximate estimation of parentage exclusions despite the fact that it is not possible to know which parent has to be excluded... - Plucked hair samples as a source of DNA: reliability of dinucleotide microsatellite genotypingB Goossens
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d Altitude CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 7:1237-41. 1998.... - Recent divergence between two morphologically differentiated subspecies of bluethroat (Aves: Muscicapidae: Luscinia svecica) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence variationS Questiau
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d Altitude CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 7:239-45. 1998..00016 for the cytochrome b gene). Only one substitution made the two subspecies genetically differentiated, highlighting their recent divergence. Interestingly, the control region was not more variable than the cytochrome b gene... - Genetic diversity and assignment tests among seven French cattle breeds based on microsatellite DNA analysisC Maudet
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, Grenoble, France
J Anim Sci 80:942-50. 2002..g., from P < 0.05 to P < 0.001). Assignment accuracy also greatly declines as the level of population differentiation decreases below the level often found between related breeds (e.g., F(ST) < 0.1)... - Genetic variation in an endemic salamander, Salamandra atra, using amplified fragment length polymorphismAlexandre Riberon
Laboratoire de Biologie des populations d Altitude, UMR CNRS 5553, Université de J Fourier, Grenoble, France
Mol Phylogenet Evol 31:910-4. 2004..Significant genetic variation was revealed by AFLP between and within populations but, our results show a lack of genetic structure. AFLP markers seems to be unsuitable to investigate complex and recent diversification... - Post-glacial history of the dominant alpine sedge Carex curvula in the European Alpine System inferred from nuclear and chloroplast markersM Puscas
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine UMR 5553 UJF CNRS and Station Alpine J Fourier UMS 2925 UJF CNRS, Universite Joseph Fourier, F 38041 Grenoble, France
Mol Ecol 17:2417-29. 2008.... - How to track and assess genotyping errors in population genetics studiesA Bonin
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
Mol Ecol 13:3261-73. 2004.... - AFLP markers reveal high clonal diversity and extreme longevity in four key arctic-alpine speciesLucienne C de Witte
Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, Basel, Switzerland
Mol Ecol 21:1081-97. 2012..Together, persistence and continuous genet turnover may ensure maximum ecosystem resilience. Thus, our results indicate that long-lived clonal plants in arctic-alpine ecosystems can persist, despite considerable climatic change... - Using AFLP to resolve phylogenetic relationships in a morphologically diversified plant species complex when nuclear and chloroplast sequences fail to reveal variabilityLaurence Despres
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite J Fourier, BP 53 38041 09, Grenoble Cedex, France
Mol Phylogenet Evol 27:185-96. 2003..Several morphological traits, independent from those used to define groups, were mapped onto the molecular phylogeny, and their evolution discussed in relation to the absence/presence of pollinator-seed parasite Chiastocheta flies... - Microsatellite analysis of genetic variation among and within Alpine marmot populations in the French AlpsB Goossens
Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d Altitude CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Mol Ecol 10:41-52. 2001..Our study clearly demonstrated that the sampling strategy and behavioural information can have dramatic effects on both the results and interpretation of the genetic data... - The power and promise of population genomics: from genotyping to genome typingGordon Luikart
Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine, Génomique des Populations et Biodiversit, CNRS UMR 5553, Universite Joseph Fourier, B P 53, F 38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
Nat Rev Genet 4:981-94. 2003..However, the most useful contribution of the genomics model to population genetics will be improving inferences about population demography and evolutionary history... - A universal method for the detection and identification of Aphidiinae parasitoids within their aphid hostsStephane A P Derocles
INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Universite de Rennes 1, UMR1099 BiO3P Biology of Organisms and Populations applied to Plant Protection, 65 rue de Saint Brieuc, CS 84215, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France
Mol Ecol Resour 12:634-45. 2012..Finally, we applied this method to assess parasitism rate in field populations of several aphid species. The interest of this tool for analysing aphid-parasitoid food webs is discussed... - Phylogeographical footprints of the Strait of Gibraltar and Quaternary climatic fluctuations in the western Mediterranean: a case study with the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula (Mammalia: Soricidae)Jean Francois Cosson
Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, INRA UMR 1062, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier Lez cedex, France
Mol Ecol 14:1151-62. 2005..Moreover, as in Europe, Quaternary climatic fluctuations had a major effect on the phylogeographical structure of the Maghreb biota... - The origin of European cattle: evidence from modern and ancient DNAAlbano Beja-Pereira
, Universidade do Porto, , Portugal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:8113-8. 2006..If so, the European cattle may represent a more variable and valuable genetic resource than previously realized, and previous simple hypotheses regarding the domestication process and the diffusion of selected breeds should be revised... - Phylogeography and conservation genetics of a giant lobelia (Lobelia giberroa) in Ethiopian and Tropical East African mountainsMulugeta Kebede
Department of Biology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mol Ecol 16:1233-43. 2007..Genetic diversity was lower in Ethiopia than in the other two main groups, possibly due to an ancient founder effect when Ethiopia was colonized from the south... - Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern GreenlandEske Willerslev
Centre for Ancient Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Science 317:111-4. 2007..The results provide direct evidence in support of a forested southern Greenland and suggest that many deep ice cores may contain genetic records of paleoenvironments in their basal sections... - From the Apennines to the Alps: colonization genetics of the naturally expanding Italian wolf (Canis lupus) populationElena Fabbri
Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica INFS Via Cà Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano Emilia BO, Italy
Mol Ecol 16:1661-71. 2007..Levels of genetic diversity in the expanding Alpine wolf population, and the permanence of genetic structuring, will depend on the future rates of gene flow among distinct wolf subpopulation fragments... - Frequent long-distance plant colonization in the changing ArcticInger Greve Alsos
National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1172 Blindern, NO 0318 Oslo, Norway
Science 316:1606-9. 2007..Thus, it may be appropriate to assume unlimited dispersal when predicting long-term range shifts in the Arctic... - Genetic estimates of annual reproductive success in male brown bears: the effects of body size, age, internal relatedness and population densityAndreas Zedrosser
Institute for Wildlife Biology and Game Management, Department for Integrative Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
J Anim Ecol 76:368-75. 2007..Individual heterozygosity at key or many loci may reflect male physical qualities and condition-sensitive traits, which may benefit males directly in contest or in sperm competition...