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Molecular studies on the colonization of the Madeiran archipelago by house mice.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2001
Gündüz I, Auffray J C, Britton-Davidian J, Catalan J, Ganem G, Ramalhinho M G, Mathias M L, Searle J B
Abstract excerpt
To study the colonization history of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) on the Madeiran archipelago, complete mitochondrial D-loop sequences were obtained for 44 individuals from Madeira, Porto Santo and Ilhas Desertas. Altogether, 19 D-loop haplotypes were identified which formed part of a single clade in a phylogeny incorporating haplotypes from elsewhere in the range of M. m. domesticus, indicating that...
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