Urban park characteristics, genetic variation, and historical demography of white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Munshi South, Jason ^a   Nagy, Christopher ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mianus River Gorge Preserve   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic bottleneck; Genetic variation; Historical demography; Mitochondrial DNA; Peromyscus leucopus; Population genetics; Selective sweep; Sex biased dispersal; Urban ecology; Urban evolutionary biology

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED MICROSATELLITE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84897932406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.310     Document Type: Article

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