Review. The ubiquitous mountain hare mitochondria: Multiple introgressive hybridization in hares, genus Lepus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1505, 2008, Pages 2831-2839

  Alves, Paulo C ^a,b   Melo Ferreira, José ^a,b,c   Freitas, Hélder ^a   Boursot, Pierre ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Hares; Hybridization; Iberian Peninsula; Mitochondrial DNA introgression; Selection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTINCTION; GLACIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; LAGOMORPH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOUNTAIN; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

LEPUS; LEPUS CASTROVIEJOI; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS GRANATENSIS; LEPUS TIMIDUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HARE; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; HARES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

EID: 48749115716     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0053     Document Type: Review

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