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Molecular heterogeneity in major urinary proteins of Mus musculus subspecies: potential candidates involved in speciation.
Scientific reports - 24 Mar 2017
Hurst Jane L, Beynon Robert J, Armstrong Stuart D, Davidson Amanda J, Roberts Sarah A, Gómez-Baena Guadalupe, Smadja Carole M, Ganem Guila
Abstract excerpt
When hybridisation carries a cost, natural selection is predicted to favour evolution of traits that allow assortative mating (reinforcement). Incipient speciation between the two European house mouse subspecies, Mus musculus domesticus and M.m.musculus, sharing a hybrid zone, provides an opportunity to understand evolution of assortative mating at a molecular level. Mouse urine odours allow subspecific mate...
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