Mitochondrial-DNA variation among populations of Peromyscus from Yukon, Canada and southeastern Alaska /

(RFLP's) and sequence variation in the ND3, ND4L, and

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Main Author: Wike, Melanie Joy, 1968-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1998.
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Summary:(RFLP's) and sequence variation in the ND3, ND4L, and
along the Pacific Northwest coast in the early
Analyses of restriction fragment length polymorphisms hics.
and the mice of the
between sister species within the P. maniculatus
central and south western Yukon. This third lineage
central stock.
concordant with the speciation model in Which P keens
cryptic lineage is as ancient as are the P.
data indicated the
data, however, indicated the presence of a third mtDNA
displayed RFLP haplotypes identical to
distances (Tamura and Nei 1993) between the P.
identity and distribution of Peromyscus from Yukon
isolation in glacial refugia in southwestern Yukon and
lineage generally sympatric with P. keens in south
maniculatus and P. keens in this region. The sequence
maniculatus and P. keens lineages. Additionally, these
maniculatus-RFLP-cryptic and the P. maniculatus and
maniculatus-RFLP-cryptic lineage. The average genetic
ND4 mitochondrion genes were used to determine the
P. maniculatus-RFLP-cryptic lineages are recent
peripheral isolates from an ancestral P maniculatus
Pleistocene, predating the Wisconsin. This pattern is
populations is proposed to have resulted from
presence and occasional sympathy of Peromyscus
respectively, This suggests that the P. maniculatus-
RFLP-
species group. Genetic differentiation among these
Territory, Canada and southeastern Alaska. The RFLP
the P. keens lineages were .043 and .046,
those of P. maniculatus and thus, was termed the P.
values of genetic distance are comparable to those
Item Description:"Major subject: Genetics".
Vita.
Physical Description:xi, 57 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 43-50.