Molecular genetic evidence for the place of origin of the pacific rat, rattus exulans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Thomson, Vicki ^a   Aplin, Ken P ^b,c   Cooper, Alan ^a   Hisheh, Susan ^d   Suzuki, Hitoshi ^e   Maryanto, Ibnu ^f   Yap, Grace ^g   Donnellan, Stephen C ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^g NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^h SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME B; ISOENZYME;

ALLOENZYME VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAT; RATTUS EXULANS; RODENT; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DATASETS AS TOPIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84898652950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091356     Document Type: Article

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