Different genes underlie adaptive melanism in different populations of rock pocket mice

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1185-1194

  Hoekstra, Hopi E ^a   Nachman, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaption; Chaetodipus; Convergent evolution; Crypsis; Mc1r; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; HAIR; MELANOSIS; NEW MEXICO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CHAETODIPUS; CHAETODIPUS INTERMEDIUS; CRYPSIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038752088     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01788.x     Document Type: Article

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