Transalpine colonisation and partial phylogeographic erosion by dispersal in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2518-2531

  Braaker, Sonja ^a   Heckel, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colonisation history; Landscape genetics; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Rodents

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

CYTOCHROME B; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 65949103862     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04189.x     Document Type: Article

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