Evolutionary and dispersal history of Eurasian house mice Mus musculus clarified by more extensive geographic sampling of mitochondrial DNA

Heredity

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 375-390

  Suzuki, H ^a   Nunome, M ^a   Kinoshita, G ^a   Aplin, K P ^b   Vogel, P ^c   Kryukov, A P ^d   Jin, M L ^e   Han, S H ^f   Maryanto, I ^g   Tsuchiya, K ^h   Ikeda, H ⁱ   Shiroishi, T ^j   Yonekawa, H ^k   Moriwaki, K ^l  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f National Institute of Biological Resources   (South Korea)

^g Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense   (Indonesia)

^h Applied Biology Co Ltd   (Japan)

ⁱ NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^k TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^l RIKEN   (Japan)

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Author keywords

control region; cytochrome b; mitochondrial DNA; phylogeography; wild house mouse

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE EXPANSION; RODENT; SAMPLING; SUBSPECIES;

AFGHANISTAN; EURASIA; INDIA; IRAN; NEPAL; PAKISTAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WESTERN EUROPE; YEMEN;

MUS MUSCULUS; MUS SPRETUS; MYA;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; INDIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHINA; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; HAPLOTYPES; INDIA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84886101148     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.60     Document Type: Article

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