Of mice and 'convicts': origin of the Australian house mouse, Mus musculus.

The house mouse, Mus musculus, is one of the most ubiquitous invasive species worldwide and in Australia is particularly common and widespread, but where it originally came from is still unknown. Here we investigated this origin through a phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences (D-lo...

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Main Authors: Sofia I Gabriel, Mark I Stevens, Maria da Luz Mathias, Jeremy B Searle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3236204?pdf=render