Genetic relationship among the musk shrews, Suncus murinus Insectivora, inhabiting islands and the continent based on mitochondrial DNA types.

doi:10.1007/BF00561336

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Genetic relationship among the musk shrews, Suncus murinus Insectivora, inhabiting islands and the continent based on mitochondrial DNA types.

Biochemical genetics - 1 Apr 1990

Yamagata T, Tanaka Y, Ishikawa A, Namikawa T, Tomita T

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Cleavage patterns of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by restriction endonucleases were examined in musk shrews collected at six trapping sites on two Japanese and two Indonesian islands, on Sri Lanka, situated close to the Indian subcontinent, and on the mainland of East Bengal in Bangladesh. No variat...

Topics

Animals
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genetic Variation
Geography
Indonesia
Japan
Restriction Mapping
Shrews
Sri Lanka

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