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Eurasian house mouse (Mus musculus L.) differentiation at microsatellite loci identifies the Iranian plateau as a phylogeographic hotspot.
BMC evolutionary biology - 25 Feb 2015
Hardouin Emilie A, Orth Annie, Teschke Meike, Darvish Jamshid, Tautz Diethard, Bonhomme François
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BACKGROUND: The phylogeography of the house mouse (Mus musculus L.), an emblematic species for genetic and biomedical studies, is only partly understood, essentially because of a sampling bias towards its most peripheral populations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Moreover, the present-day phylogeographic hypotheses stem mostly from the study of mitochondrial lineages. In this article, we complement the mtDNA...
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