How did pygmy shrews colonize Ireland? Clues from a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1593-1599

  Mascheretti, Silvia ^a,d   Rogatcheva, Margarita B ^a,e   Gündüz, Islam ^b   Fredga, Karl ^c   Searle, Jeremy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Cytochrome b; Ireland; mtDNA; Pygmy shrew; Sorex minutus

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

COLONIZATION; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; INSECTIVORE; IRELAND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOREX MINUTUS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

IRELAND;

MAMMALIA; SOREX; SOREX HOYI; SOREX MINUTUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 0041529703     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2406     Document Type: Article

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