Patterns of morphological evolution in the mandible of the house mouse Mus musculus (Rodentia: Muridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 635-647

  Siahsarvie, Roohollah ^a,b   Auffray, Jean Christophe ^a   Darvish, Jamshid ^b   Rajabi Maham, Hassan ^c   Yu, Hon Tsen ^d   Agret, Sylvie ^a   Bonhomme, François ^a   Claude, Julien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Commensalism; M.musculus castaneus; M.musculus domesticus; M.musculus musculus; Morphometrics; Origin

Indexed keywords

COMMENSALISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PARAPATRY; PERIPHERAL REGION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT; SUBSPECIES;

IRANIAN PLATEAU;

MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS CASTANEUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84856450974     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01821.x     Document Type: Article

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