The evolution of burrowing behaviour in deer mice (genus Peromyscus)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 603-609

  Weber, Jesse N ^a   Hoekstra, Hopi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; comparative method; extended phenotype; innate behaviour; oldfield mouse; Peromyscus; Peromyscus maniculatus; Peromyscus polionotus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BURROWING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; INNATE BEHAVIOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OLD FIELD; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RODENT;

MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS;

EID: 59849095262     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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