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COMMENTARY: How cryptic is the Scandinavian lynx?
Author(s) -
PAMILO P.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
molecular ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.619
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1365-294X
pISSN - 0962-1083
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2004.02277.x
Subject(s) - biology , colonization , evolutionary biology , ecology
A reanalysis of the existing genotypic data shows that they are compatible with the hypothesis that the present‐day Scandinavian lynx represents a recent expansion from a single source. This contradicts earlier conclusions. The difference arises when it is assumed that the expansion and colonization have been stochastic processes and that the populations may not be at a drift‐migration equilibrium.