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Historic hybridization and persistence of a novel mito-nuclear combination in red-backed voles (genus Myodes).
BMC evolutionary biology - 21 May 2009
Runck Amy M, Matocq Marjorie D, Cook Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The role of hybridization in generating diversity in animals is an active area of discovery and debate. We assess hybridization across a contact zone of northern (Myodes rutilus) and southern (M. gapperi) red-backed voles using variation in skeletal features and both mitochondrial and nuclear loci. This transect extends approximately 550 km along the North Pacific Coast of North America and...
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