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Chapter 6 - Resolving taxonomic uncertainties and defining management units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Richard Frankham ,
Jonathan D. Ballou  and
David A. Briscoe
Illustrated by
Karina H. McInnes
Richard Frankham
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, Sydney
Jonathan D. Ballou
Affiliation:
Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington DC
David A. Briscoe
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, Sydney
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A Primer of Conservation Genetics , pp. 101 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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References

Frankham, R., J. D. Ballou & D. A. Briscoe. 2002. Introduction to Conservation Genetics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Chapter 15 has a slightly extended treatment of these topics, along with references
Avise, J. C. & J. Hamrick. 1996. Conservation Genetics: Case Histories from Nature. Chapman & Hall, New York. Advanced scientific reviews that describe many cases of resolving taxonomic uncertainties with the aid of molecular genetic techniques
Claridge, M. F., H. A. Dawah & M. R. Wilson. 1997. Species: The Units of Biodiversity. Chapman & Hall, London. A collection of scientific papers on species, including the many different definitions
Crandall, K. A., O. R. P. Bininda-Edmonds, G. M. Mace & R. K. Wayne. 2000. Considering evolutionary processes in conservation biology: an alternative to ‘evolutionarily significant units’. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 290–295. Method proposed for using genetic and ecological differences between populations within species as a basis for deciding on whether they deserve separate management
Futuyma, D. J. 1998. Evolutionary Biology, 3rd edn. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA. A textbook with an excellent readable coverage of speciation and the genetic processes underlying it
Hall, B. G. 2001. Phylogenetics Made Easy: A How-to Manual for Molecular Biologists. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA. A clearly written guide to building phylogenetic trees from molecular data
Nei, M. & S. Kumar. 2000. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. Oxford University Press, New York. Textbook on genetic distances and molecular methods in taxonomy

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