Genetic diversity and its ecological correlates in nature: comparisons between subterranean, fossorial, and aboveground small mammals.

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Genetic diversity and its ecological correlates in nature: comparisons between subterranean, fossorial, and aboveground small mammals.

Progress in clinical and biological research - 1 Jan 1990

Nevo E, Filippucci M G, Beiles A

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We have reanalyzed the levels of observed heterozygosity based on old and new material of small mammals in attempt to retest the environmental theory of genetic diversity or the niche-width variation hypothesis. This study involves old and new material of 184 small mammalian species both insectiv...

Topics

Animals
Environment
Eulipotyphla
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Rodentia
Statistics as Topic

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