Behavioural and physiological characteristics of standard and chromosomally divergent populations of house mice from the Orkney archipelago (Scotland)

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-38

  Ganem, Guila ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Commensalism; Corticosterone; Dyadic encounters; Islands; Mus musculus

Indexed keywords

MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

CHROMOSOMAL EVOLUTION; HOUSE MOUSE; POPULATION GENETICS;

UK, SCOTLAND, ORKNEY;

EID: 0031597614     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4098/AT.arch.98-3     Document Type: Article

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