Critically endangered island endemic or peripheral population of a widespread species? Conservation genetics of Kikuchis gecko and the global challenge of protecting peripheral oceanic island endemic vertebrates
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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072-7029, USA, Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, Institute of Natural and Environmental Sciences, and Museum of Nature and Human Activities, University of Hyogo, Yayoigaoka 6, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1546, Japan
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