Genotypic and phenotypic divergence of rodents (Acomys cahirinus and Apodemus mystacinus) at "Evolution Canyon": Micro- and macroscale parallelism

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 43, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 9-34

  Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Filippucci, Gracia M ^b   Pavlicek, Tomas ^a   Gorlova, Olga ^a   Shenbrot, Georgy ^c   Ivanitskaya, Elena ^a   Beiles, Avigdor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Genetic diversity; Natural selection; Spiny mouse; Woodmouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003264378     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4098/AT.arch.98-31     Document Type: Article

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