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mtDNA phylogeny and evolution of laboratory mouse strains.
Genome research - 1 Mar 2007
Goios Ana, Pereira Luísa, Bogue Molly, Macaulay Vincent, Amorim António
Abstract excerpt
Inbred mouse strains have been maintained for more than 100 years, and they are thought to be a mixture of four different mouse subspecies. Although genealogies have been established, female inbred mouse phylogenies remain unexplored. By a phylogenetic analysis of newly generated complete mitochondrial DNA sequence data in 16 strains, we show here that all common inbred strains descend from the same Mus musculus...
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