Genetic assessment of a bighorn sheep population expansion in the Silver Bell Mountains, Arizona
Background The isolated population of desert bighorn sheep in the Silver Bell Mountains of southern Arizona underwent an unprecedented expansion in merely four years. We hypothesized that immigration from neighboring bighorn sheep populations could have caused the increase in numbers as detected by...
Main Authors: | John A. Erwin, Karla Vargas, Brian R. Blais, Kendell Bennett, Julia Muldoon, Sarah Findysz, Courtney Christie, James R. Heffelfinger, Melanie Culver |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-11-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5978.pdf |
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