Allozyme differentiation in four sympatric species of European shrews (Soricidae: Mammalia)

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 291-298

  Wójcik, Jan M ^a   Wójcik, Anna M ^a   Zalewska, Hanna ^a   Rychlik, Leszek ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

allozyme electrophoresis; biochemical systematics; evolution; Neomys; shrews; Sorex; sympatric species

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INSECTIVORE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030159466     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(96)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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