Unraveling the diversity of the wild house mouse
Scientists have revealed the genetic structure and diversity and inferred the population history of the wild house mouse across Europe and Asia.
Evolution, the International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a leading monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events. Evolution is published by the Society for the Study of Evolution. Its editor is Daphne Fairbairn.
Scientists have revealed the genetic structure and diversity and inferred the population history of the wild house mouse across Europe and Asia.
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