Of mice and (Viking?) men: Phylogeography of British and Irish house mice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1655, 2009, Pages 201-207

  Searle, Jeremy B ^a   Jones, Catherine S ^b,c   Gündüz, Islam ^a,d   Scascitelli, Moira ^a,e,f   Jones, Eleanor P ^a   Herman, Jeremy S ^a,g   Rambau, R Victor ^a,h   Noble, Leslie R ^b,c   Berry, R J ^b   Giménez, Mabel D ^a   Jóhannesdóttir, Fríoa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Colonization history; D loop; Mitochondrial DNA; Mus musculus domesticus; Restriction fragment length polymorphisms; Vikings

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COLONIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOVEMENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM; RODENT; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMMENSALISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 58149260341     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0958     Document Type: Article

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