Chromosomal Banding Patterns of the Holarctic Rodents, Clethrionomys rutilus and Microtus oeconomus

• Main Authors: Nadler, C. F., Rausch, V. R., Lyapunova, E. A., Vorontsov, N. N., Hoffman, R. S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1976
• Subjects: Animal Sciences; Genetics and Genomics; Other Animal Sciences; Zoology; Bering Strait; Macpherson; Bering Land Bridge; taiga; Tundra; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy/268; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/museummammalogy/article/1267/viewcontent/Nadler_1975.pdf

Biologists have long been aware of close similarities between the mammalian faunas of northern Eurasia and northern North America (Flerov 1967; Rausch 1953, 1963; Sushkin 1925; Tugarinov 1934). This similarity is particularly strong between species of tundra and taiga ecosystems (Hoffmann and Taber...