Mammalian microevolution in action: Adaptive edaphic genomic divergence in blind subterranean mole-rats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Polyakov, Andrei ^a,b   Beharav, Alex ^a   Avivi, Aaron ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Genome; Microscale ecology; Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; RODENT; SOIL PROPERTY;

ALLELE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; ISRAEL; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; GALILEE; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

ALHAGI; ALHAGI GRAECORUM; ANIMALIA; CARLINA; MAMMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX EHRENBERGI; SPALAX GALILI;

EID: 2342528463     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0112     Document Type: Article

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