On the trail of Neolithic mice and men towards Transcaucasia: Zooarchaeological clues from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 917-928

  Cucchi, Thomas ^a,b   Kovács, Zsófia Eszter ^c   Berthon, Rémi ^a,d   Orth, Annie ^e   Bonhomme, François ^e   Evin, Allowen ^b   Siahsarvie, Roohollah ^e,f   Darvish, Jamshid ^f   Bakhshaliyev, Veli ^g   Marro, Catherine ^h  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^f FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^g INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^h University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

Author keywords

Colonization history; Geometric morphometric; House mouse; Hybridization; Mus musculus

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOACCUMULATION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

AZERBAIJAN; CASPIAN SEA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 84875069212     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12004     Document Type: Article

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