Colonization, mouse-style

Author
Gabriel, Sofia I
Jóhannesdóttir, Fríða
Jones, Eleanor P
Searle, Jeremy B.
Abstract

Several recent papers, including one in BMC Evolutionary Biology, examine the colonization history of house mice. As well as background for the analysis of mouse adaptation, such studies offer a perspective on the history of movements of the humans that accidentally transported the mice.

Sponsorship
SIG was funded by the scholarship SFRH/BD/21437/2005 from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), FJ and JBS by Cornell University (USA) and EPJ by the Carl Trygger Foundation (Sweden).
Date Issued
2010-10-26
Publisher
BioMed Central
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Previously Published as
BMC Biology, 2010, 8:131
Type
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