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(With 1 plate and 2 figures in the text) House mice havc colonized and survived successfully on a numbcr of Sub-Antarctic islands, where the mean annual temperature is only about SoC, but whcre there is little seasonal fluctuation in climate. Surprisingly this allows almost continuous breeding. On a...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.549.9516 2023-05-15T13:34:25+02:00 Contents R. J. Berry Josephine Peters R. J. Van Aarde The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1977 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.9516 http://www.ceru.up.ac.za/downloads/Sub-antarctic_House_mice_colonization.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.9516 http://www.ceru.up.ac.za/downloads/Sub-antarctic_House_mice_colonization.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.ceru.up.ac.za/downloads/Sub-antarctic_House_mice_colonization.pdf Methods and material 131 text 1977 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T11:28:09Z (With 1 plate and 2 figures in the text) House mice havc colonized and survived successfully on a numbcr of Sub-Antarctic islands, where the mean annual temperature is only about SoC, but whcre there is little seasonal fluctuation in climate. Surprisingly this allows almost continuous breeding. On at least two islands (Maequarie and Marion), there are significant changes in gcne frequency in electro phoretically detected enzymes between young (less than three months of age) and old animals from the same population. This indicatcs natural selection acting in opposite directions at different stages of the life cycle. However the genetical compositions of the Macquarie and Marion populations are more distinct from each other than either is fromĀ· most British samples. This means that detailed studies of the Sub-Antarctic mouse popula tions are likely to reveal much about local adaptation, while comparison between the rcsponses of different populations may lead to important generalisations about the possible Text Antarc* Antarctic Unknown Antarctic |
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