Phylogeography of the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in the eastern United States
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Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC 20008, USA (CAB, JEM) Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 (JEM) Department of Environmental Science and Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, USA (SLL, DJC) Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC 29802, USA (SLL) Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA (DJC) Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA (JLG)
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