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Genetic variation and phylogeography of central Asian and other house mice, including a major new mitochondrial lineage in Yemen.
Genetics - 1 Oct 1998
Prager E M, Orrego C, Sage R D
Abstract excerpt
The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and flanking tRNAs were sequenced from 76 mice collected at 60 localities extending from Egypt through Turkey, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal to eastern Asia. Segments of the Y chromosome and of a processed p53 pseudogene (Psip53) were amplified from many of these mice and from others collected elsewhere in Eurasia and North Africa. The 251 mtDNA types,...
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