Mitochondrial DNA variation along an altitudinal gradient in the greater white-toothed shrew,Crocidura russula
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Mitochondrial DNA variation along an altitudinal gradient in the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula.
The distribution of mitochondrial control region-sequence polymorphism was investigated in 15 populations of Crocidura russula along an altitudinal gradient in western Switzerland. High-altitude populations are smaller, sparser and appear to undergo frequent bottlenecks. Accordingly, they showed a loss of rare haplotypes, but unexpectedly, were less differentiated than lowland populations. Furt...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0962-1083
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2002.01487.x