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Wormy mice in a hybrid zone.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Sage R D, Heyneman D, Lim K C, Wilson A C
Abstract excerpt
As one approach to analysing the genetic barriers between species, we studied the numbers and types of parasitic worms in two species of house mice (Mus musculus and M. domesticus) and in their natural hybrids. Where the ranges of these two species meet in southern Germany, there is a zone of hybridization less than 20 kilometres across, in which about 98% of the mice have backcross genotypes. Fourteen of the 46...
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