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	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Life sciences : Zoology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/77884

Title :	On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Libois, Roland [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Zoogéographie - Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement >]
	Michaux, Johan [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences de la vie > Génétique >]
	Ramalhinho, M. G. [> > > >]
	Maurois, Céline [Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Centre d'oncologie >]
	Sara, M. [> > > >]
Publication date :	2001
Journal title :	Canadian Journal of Zoology
Publisher :	NRC Research Press
Volume :	79
Issue/season :	8
Pages :	1503-1511
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBi)
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0008-4301
e-ISSN :	1480-3283
City :	Ottawa
Country :	Canada
Abstract :	[en] Conflicting hypotheses have been formulated regarding the origin of wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations in northern Africa. In this study, the mtDNA restriction patterns of mice (n = 28) collected in Tunisia and Morocco are compared with those of representatives from southern Europe (n = 102). The neighbour-joining tree confirms the existence of the three lineages previously found in the Mediterranean area: western, Tyrrhenian-Balkan, and Sicilian. The western group is isolated from the two others, with bootstrap values of 89 and 95%. Northern African patterns are included in the western group. Their variability is low, the same pattern being shared by five Tunisian and all Moroccan animals (n = 18), caught either in the north of the country (Cap Spartel) or in the south (Marrakech). This implies that northern African wood mouse populations have a southwestern European origin and that their presence in the region is probably recent, which corresponds to both paleontological data and the hypothesis of anthropogenic introduction.
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