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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Of mice and (Viking?) men: Phylogeography of British and Irish house mice
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 276, No. 1655, Year 2009
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The west European subspecies of house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has gained much of its current widespread distribution through commensalism with humans. This means that the phylogeography of M. m. domesticus should reflect patterns of human movements. We studied restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and DNA sequence variations in mouse mitochondrial (mt) DNA throughout the British Isles (328 mice from 105 localities, including previously published data). There is a major mtDNA lineage revealed by both RFLP and sequence analyses, which is restricted to the northern and western peripheries of the British Isles, and also occurs in Norway. This distribution of the 'Orkney' lineage fits well with the sphere of influence of the Norwegian Vikings and was probably generated through inadvertent transport by them. To form viable populations, house mice would have required large human settlements such as the Norwegian Vikings founded. The other parts of the British Isles (essentially most of mainland Britain) are characterized by house mice with different mtDNA sequences, some of which are also found in Germany, and which probably reflect both Iron Age movements of people and mice and earlier development of large human settlements. MtDNA studies on house mice have the potential to reveal novel aspects of human history. © 2008 The Royal Society.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Searle, Jeremy B.
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Jones, Catherine S.
United Kingdom, London
University College London
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Gündüz, Islam
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Turkey, Samsun
Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Science and Arts
Scascitelli, Moira
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Italy, Rome
Università Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata
Canada, Vancouver
The University of British Columbia
Jones, Eleanor P.
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Herman, Jeremy S.
United Kingdom, York
University of York
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
National Museums of Scotland
Rambau, Ramugondo Victor
United Kingdom, York
University of York
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Noble, Leslie Robert
United Kingdom, London
University College London
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Berry, Robert J.
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Giménez, Mabel D.
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Jóhannesdóttir, Fríoa
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Statistics
Citations: 90
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rspb.2008.0958
ISSN:
09628452
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics
Participants Gender
Male