Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of black rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Aplin, Ken P ^a   Suzuki, Hitoshi ^b   Chinen, Alejandro A ^b   Chesser, R Terry ^c   ten Have, José ^d   Donnellan, Stephen C ^e   Austin, Jeremy ^e   Frost, Angela ^a   Gonzalez, Jean Paul ^f   Herbreteau, Vincent ^f   Catzeflis, Francois ^g   Soubrier, Julien ^e   Fang, Yin Ping ^h   Robins, Judith ⁱ   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth ^j   Bastos, Amanda D S ^k   Maryanto, Ibnu ^l   Sinaga, Martua H ^l   Denys, Christiane ^m   van Den Bussche, Ronald A ⁿ   Conroy, Chris ^o   Rowe, Kevin ^o   Cooper, Alan ^e   more..

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d Office of the Gene Technology Regulator   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^h NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^l INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^m MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁿ OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLADISTICS; COMMENSALISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HIMALAYAN REGION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INDOCHINA; KARYOTYPE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETICS; RAT; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAXONOMY; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM;

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; RATS;

EID: 80355129314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026357     Document Type: Article

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