Microgeographical distribution of two chromosomal races of house mice in Tunisia: Pattern and origin of habitat partitioning

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1428, 1999, Pages 1561-1569

  Chatti, Noureddine ^a   Ganem, Guila ^b   Benzekri, Kamilia ^a   Catalan, Josette ^b   Britton Davidian, Janice ^b   Saïd, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosomal races; Cline; Habitat partitioning; House mice; Hybrid; Robertsonian fusions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNISIA;

MUS MUSCULUS; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 0033533088     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0816     Document Type: Article

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