Genetic variation in Irish pygmy shrews Sorex minutus (Soricomorpha: Soricidae): Implications for colonization history

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 918-927

  McDevitt, Allan D ^a,e   Rambau, Ramugondo V ^b,c   O'Brien, John ^a   McDevitt, C Damien ^d   Hayden, Thomas J ^a   Searle, Jeremy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d Raphoe   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control region; Human introduction; Ireland; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Small mammal

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COLONIZATION; DATING METHOD; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SMALL MAMMAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; SOREX HOYI; SOREX MINUTUS; SORICIDAE; SORICOMORPHA;

EID: 68349147930     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01218.x     Document Type: Article

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