Evolution of an invasive rodent on an archipelago as revealed by molar shape analysis: The house mouse in the Canary Islands

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1412-1425

  Michaux, Jacques ^a   Cucchi, Thomas ^b,c   Renaud, Sabrina ^d   Garcia Talavera, Francisco ^e   Hutterer, Rainer ^f  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e Museo de la Naturaleza Y El Hombre   (Spain)

^f ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropization; Colonization; Fourier transform; Geometric morphometry; Human migration; Insular syndrome; Island biogeography; Late Holocene; Mus musculus domesticus; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; COLONIZATION; COMMENSAL; DENTITION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HOLOCENE; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRY; RODENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; CAPE VERDE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOMERA; GRAN CANARIA; HIERRO; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUS SPRETUS; NESOMYS RUFUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34447628023     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01701.x     Document Type: Article

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