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Raciation and speciation in house mice from the Alps: the role of chromosomes.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2001
Piálek J, Hauffe H C, Rodríguez-Clark K M, Searle J B
Abstract excerpt
There are at least 24 different karyotypic races of house mouse in the central Alps, each characterized by a different complement of ancestral acrocentric and derived metacentric chromosomes; altogether 55 different metacentric chromosomes have been described from the region. We argue that this chromosome variation largely arose in situ. If these races were to make contact, in most cases they would produce F1...
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