AgNOR variability among Robertsonian races of the house mouse from the island of Madeira: Implications for patterns of Rb fusion formation and genetic differentiation

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 585-591

  Ramalhinho, G ^a   Braz, C ^a   Catalan, J ^b   Mathias, M L ^a   Britton Davidian, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosome; Differentiation; Mus musculus domesticus; rDNA

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC ISOLATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MADEIRA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 15944428236     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00456.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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