Morphometric study of two species of wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus and A. flavicollis (Rodentia: Muridae): Traditional and geometric morphometric approach

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-27

  Barčiová, Lenka ^a   Macholán, Miloš ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Apodemus; Character displacement; Discriminant function; Geometric morphometrics; Multivariate analysis; Wood mouse

Indexed keywords

INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; MORPHOMETRY; RODENT;

APODEMUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33244496878     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03192651     Document Type: Article

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