House mouse dispersal in Iron Age Spain: A geometric morphometrics appraisal

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-497

  Valenzuela Lamas, Silvia ^a,b   Baylac, Michel ^c   Cucchi, Thomas ^c,d   Vigne, Jean Denis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalonia; Colonization; Elliptical Fourier analysis; Geometric morphometrics; Mus musculus domesticus; Mus spretus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONIZATION; DOMINANCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GEOMETRY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; IRON AGE; MORPHOMETRY; RODENT;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); MOROCCO; SPAIN;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUS SPRETUS;

EID: 79751469607     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01603.x     Document Type: Article

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