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Urbanization shapes the demographic history of a native rodent (the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus) in New York City.
Biology letters - 1 Apr 2016
Harris Stephen E, Xue Alexander T, Alvarado-Serrano Diego, Boehm Joel T, Joseph Tyler, Hickerson Michael J, Munshi-South Jason
Abstract excerpt
How urbanization shapes population genomic diversity and evolution of urban wildlife is largely unexplored. We investigated the impact of urbanization on white-footed mice,Peromyscus leucopus,in the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area using coalescent-based simulations to infer demographic history from the site-frequency spectrum. We assigned individuals to evolutionary clusters and then inferred recent...
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