Colonization and adaptation patterns of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) on the Kerguelen Archipelago

• Main Author: Hardouin, Emilie
• Other Authors: Tautz, Diethard, Schulenburg, Hinrich
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: ddc:590; thesis; House mouse; Kerguelen Archipelago; phylogeography; adaptation genetic; Hausmaus; Kerguelen Archipel; Phylogeographie; Genetisch Anpassung; Kerguelen; Main Island; The ''Y''; Amsterdam Island; Antipodes Island; Auckland Islands; Macquarie Island; Marion Island
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-61247; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00006124; https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dissertation_derivate_00003614/Thesis_Hardouin.pdf

Starting from Western Europe, the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has spread across the globe in historic times. However, most of the southern oceanic islands were colonized by mice only within the past 300 years. This makes them an excellent model for studying the evolutionary processes durin...