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Geomorphometric differences in shape and size of the cranium and mandible among three cytotypes of Nannospalax nehringi (Satunin, 1898) (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from East Anatolia. ZOOL ANZ 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tembotova F, Kuchinova E, Amshokova A, Kononenko E. The genetic diversity of the genus Mus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the eastern part of the North Caucasus. BMC ZOOL 2021; 6:29. [PMID: 37170371 PMCID: PMC10127352 DOI: 10.1186/s40850-021-00093-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Abstract
Background
There are two species of Mus in the Caucasus: M. musculus and M. macedonicus. M. musculus is widespread in the Caucasus, where the species is found everywhere from the Black to the Caspian Sea. M. macedonicus is ubiquitous Transcaucasia. The most north-astern border of its distribution in the Caucasus, according to the literature, is located in the Derbent region, near the border between Dagestan and Azerbaijan.
Results
Cytochrome b mt-DNA of genus Mus research in this study in the Eastern Caucasus. About 70% of M. musculus haplotypes from the lowlands of Dagestan were recorded for the first time. One of these haplotypes accounts for approximately 25% of the total species diversity of haplotypes. M. macedonicus was found in only one locality, the Sarykum barchans, where this species prevails in number and accounts for 70% of the total number mice of the genus Mus. The species is characterized by low values of genetic diversity and nucleotide variability, which may indicate that the population originated from a small number of founders and may explain its relative isolation from the main range. The dating of the appearance of the ancestors of M. musculus in the east of the Russian Caucasus corresponds to 99-66 thousand years ago (at a mutation rate of 3-10% per million years).
Conclusion
The results obtained suggest that the history of the appearance of M. musculus in the Eastern Caucasus is more ancient and is not associated with human agricultural activities.
We believe that possibly the ancestral range of M. musculus covered the eastern and western coasts of the Caspian Sea in the territory of southern Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Iran. In this paper M. macedonicus, a Balkan-Asia Minor species, was registered for the first time in the North Caucasus. This species was registered in the center of Dagestan, where it inhabits sympatrically (on the territory) and syntopically (on the same biotope) with M. musculus. The low values of genetic diversity of M. macedonicus in the North Caucasus suggest that the population originated from a small group of founders.
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Kishimoto M, Kato M, Suzuki H. Morphological and Molecular Recharacterization of the Rodent Genus Mus from Nepal Based on Museum Specimens. MAMMAL STUDY 2021. [DOI: 10.3106/ms2020-0065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Makoto Kishimoto
- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 5, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Botanic Garden & Museum, Hokkaido University, North 3, West 8, Sapporo, 060-0003, Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 5, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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Galeta P, Lázničková-Galetová M, Sablin M, Germonpré M. Morphological evidence for early dog domestication in the European Pleistocene: New evidence from a randomization approach to group differences. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2020; 304:42-62. [PMID: 32869467 DOI: 10.1002/ar.24500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The antiquity of the wolf/dog domestication has been recently pushed back in time from the Late Upper Paleolithic (~14,000 years ago) to the Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP; ~36,000 years ago). Some authors questioned this early dog domestication claiming that the putative (EUP) Paleolithic dogs fall within the morphological range of recent wolves. In this study, we reanalyzed a data set of large canid skulls using unbalanced- and balanced-randomized discriminant analyses to assess whether the putative Paleolithic dogs are morphologically unique or whether they represent a subsample of the wolf morpho-population. We evaluated morphological differences between 96 specimens of the 4 a priori reference groups (8 putative Paleolithic dogs, 41 recent northern dogs, 7 Pleistocene wolves, and 40 recent northern wolves) using discriminant analysis based on 5 ln-transformed raw and allometrically size-adjusted cranial measurements. Putative Paleolithic dogs are classified with high accuracies (87.5 and 100.0%, cross-validated) and randomization experiment suggests that these classification rates cannot be exclusively explained by the small and uneven sample sizes of reference groups. It indicates that putative Upper Paleolithic dogs may represent a discrete canid group with morphological signs of domestication (a relatively shorter skull and wider palate and braincase) that distinguish them from sympatric Pleistocene wolves. The present results add evidence to the view that these specimens could represent incipient Paleolithic dogs that were involved in daily activities of European Upper Paleolithic forager groups.
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- Patrik Galeta
- Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.,The Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- Operational Direction "Earth and History of Life", Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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Selçuk AY, Kaya A, Kefelioğlu H. Geomorphometric differences among four species of Microtus in Turkey (Mammalia: Rodentia). ZOOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1388492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Ahmet Yesari Selçuk
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun/Turkey
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun/Turkey
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Dianat M, Darvish J, Cornette R, Aliabadian M, Nicolas V. Evolutionary history of the Persian Jird,Meriones persicus,based on genetics, species distribution modelling and morphometric data. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Malahat Dianat
- Department of Biology; Faculty of Sciences; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
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- Department of Biology; Faculty of Sciences; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
- Rodentology Research Department; Institute of Applied Zoology; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
- Zoological Innovations Research Department; Institute of Applied Zoology; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS; MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Sorbonne Universités, Paris France
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- Department of Biology; Faculty of Sciences; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
- Zoological Innovations Research Department; Institute of Applied Zoology; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad Iran
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS; MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Sorbonne Universités, Paris France
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Percival CJ, Liberton DK, Pardo‐Manuel de Villena F, Spritz R, Marcucio R, Hallgrímsson B. Genetics of murine craniofacial morphology: diallel analysis of the eight founders of the Collaborative Cross. J Anat 2016; 228:96-112. [PMID: 26426826 PMCID: PMC4694168 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Using eight inbred founder strains of the mouse Collaborative Cross (CC) project and their reciprocal F1 hybrids, we quantified variation in craniofacial morphology across mouse strains, explored genetic contributions to craniofacial variation that distinguish the founder strains, and tested whether specific or summary measures of craniofacial shape display stronger additive genetic contributions. This study thus provides critical information about phenotypic diversity among CC founder strains and about the genetic contributions to this phenotypic diversity, which is relevant to understanding the basis of variation in standard laboratory strains and natural populations. Craniofacial shape was quantified as a series of size-adjusted linear dimensions (RDs) and by principal components (PC) analysis of morphological landmarks captured from computed tomography images from 62 of the 64 reciprocal crosses of the CC founder strains. We first identified aspects of skull morphology that vary between these phenotypically 'normal' founder strains and that are defining characteristics of these strains. We estimated the contributions of additive and various non-additive genetic factors to phenotypic variation using diallel analyses of a subset of these strongly differing RDs and the first eight PCs of skull shape variation. We find little difference in the genetic contributions to RD measures and PC scores, suggesting fundamental similarities in the magnitude of genetic contributions to both specific and summary measures of craniofacial phenotypes. Our results indicate that there are stronger additive genetic effects associated with defining phenotypic characteristics of specific founder strains, suggesting these distinguishing measures are good candidates for use in genotype-phenotype association studies of CC mice. Our results add significantly to understanding of genotype-phenotype associations in the skull, which serve as a foundation for modeling the origins of medically and evolutionarily relevant variation.
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- Christopher J. Percival
- Alberta Children's Hospital Institute for Child and Maternal HealthUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- The McCaig Bone and Joint InstituteUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- Department of Cell Biology and AnatomyUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
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- The McCaig Bone and Joint InstituteUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- Department of Cell Biology and AnatomyUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- Present address: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchBethesdaMDUSA
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- Human Medical Genetics and Genomics ProgramUniversity of Colorado School of MedicineAuroraCOUSA
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- The Orthopaedic Trauma InstituteDepartment of Orthopaedic SurgeryUCSF School of MedicineSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Institute for Child and Maternal HealthUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- The McCaig Bone and Joint InstituteUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
- Department of Cell Biology and AnatomyUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryABCanada
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Pečnerová P, Moravec JC, Martínková N. A Skull Might Lie: Modeling Ancestral Ranges and Diet from Genes and Shape of Tree Squirrels. Syst Biol 2015; 64:1074-88. [PMID: 26254670 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 07/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Tropical forests of Central and South America represent hotspots of biological diversity. Tree squirrels of the tribe Sciurini are an excellent model system for the study of tropical biodiversity as these squirrels disperse exceptional distances, and after colonizing the tropics of the Central and South America, they have diversified rapidly. Here, we compare signals from DNA sequences with morphological signals using pictures of skulls and computational simulations. Phylogenetic analyses reveal step-wise geographic divergence across the Northern Hemisphere. In Central and South America, tree squirrels form two separate clades, which split from a common ancestor. Simulations of ancestral distributions show western Amazonia as the epicenter of speciation in South America. This finding suggests that wet tropical forests on the foothills of Andes possibly served as refugia of squirrel diversification during Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Comparison of phylogeny and morphology reveals one major discrepancy: Microsciurus species are a single clade morphologically but are polyphyletic genetically. Modeling of morphology-diet relationships shows that the only group of species with a direct link between skull shape and diet are the bark-gleaning insectivorous species of Microsciurus. This finding suggests that the current designation of Microsciurus as a genus is based on convergent ecologically driven changes in morphology.
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- Patrícia Pečnerová
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden;
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand; and
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Hsu FH, Hsieh YS, Wu SH, Kam YC. Altitudinal variation in body size and age structure of the Sauter’s frog Rana sauteri in Taiwan. Zool Stud 2014. [DOI: 10.1186/s40555-014-0062-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Martínez JJ, Millien V, Simone I, Priotto JW. Ecological preference between generalist and specialist rodents: spatial and environmental correlates of phenotypic variation. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Juan J. Martínez
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Departamento de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; Agencia Postal N°3 5800 Río Cuarto Córdoba Argentina
- Redpath Museum; McGill University; 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal Québec H3A 0C4 Canada
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- Redpath Museum; McGill University; 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal Québec H3A 0C4 Canada
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Departamento de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; Agencia Postal N°3 5800 Río Cuarto Córdoba Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Departamento de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; Agencia Postal N°3 5800 Río Cuarto Córdoba Argentina
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Baverstock H, Jeffery NS, Cobb SN. The morphology of the mouse masticatory musculature. J Anat 2013; 223:46-60. [PMID: 23692055 PMCID: PMC4487762 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The mouse has been the dominant model organism in studies on the development, genetics and evolution of the mammalian skull and associated soft-tissue for decades. There is the potential to take advantage of this well studied model and the range of mutant, knockin and knockout organisms with diverse craniofacial phenotypes to investigate the functional significance of variation and the role of mechanical forces on the development of the integrated craniofacial skeleton and musculature by using computational mechanical modelling methods (e.g. finite element and multibody dynamic modelling). Currently, there are no detailed published data of the mouse masticatory musculature available. Here, using a combination of micro-dissection and non-invasive segmentation of iodine-enhanced micro-computed tomography, we document the anatomy, architecture and proportions of the mouse masticatory muscles. We report on the superficial masseter (muscle, tendon and pars reflecta), deep masseter, zygomaticomandibularis (anterior, posterior, infraorbital and tendinous parts), temporalis (lateral and medial parts), external and internal pterygoid muscles. Additionally, we report a lateral expansion of the attachment of the temporalis onto the zygomatic arch, which may play a role in stabilising this bone during downwards loading. The data presented in this paper now provide a detailed reference for phenotypic comparison in mouse models and allow the mouse to be used as a model organism in biomechanical and functional modelling and simulation studies of the craniofacial skeleton and particularly the masticatory system.
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- Hester Baverstock
- Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
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Tabatabaei Yazdi F, Adriaens D. Cranial variation in Meriones tristrami
(Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae) and its morphological comparison with Meriones persicus
,Meriones vinogradovi
and Meriones libycus
: a geometric morphometric study. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Yazdi FT, Adriaens D, Darvish J. Geographic pattern of cranial differentiation in the Asian Midday JirdMeriones meridianus(Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae) and its taxonomic implications. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00642.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Fatemeh Tabatabaei Yazdi
- Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Gent, Belgium
- Rodentology Research Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Rodentology Research Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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Martínez JJ, Di Cola V. Geographic distribution and phenetic skull variation in two close species of Graomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). ZOOL ANZ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2011.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Bo Liao W, Lu X. Age structure and body size of the Chuanxi Tree Frog Hyla annectans chuanxiensis from two different elevations in Sichuan (China). ZOOL ANZ 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2009.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Frynta D, Slábová M, Vohralík V. Why Do Male House Mice Have Such Small Testes? Zoolog Sci 2009; 26:17-23. [DOI: 10.2108/zsj.26.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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