| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules : new paradigms in evolutionary biology |
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Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules.
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| Contents |
Milestones in common shrew chromosomal research / Jan Zima and Jeremy B. Searle -- Introducing the common shrew / Nikolay A. Shchipanov, Jan Zima and Sara Churchfield -- Morphology and genetics of the common shrew : general features -- Alina Mishta and Jeremy B. Searle -- Phylogeography / Fríða Jóhannesdóttir, Andrew J. Thompson, Rodrigo Vega, Jeremy S. Herman, Thomas A. White, Marja Heikkinen, Anna A. Bannikova and Jeremy B. Searle -- Chromosomal differentiation in the common shrew and related species / Nina S. Bulatova, Larisa S. Biltueva, Svetlana V. Pavlova, Natalia S. Zhdanova and Jan Zima -- Phylogenetic relationships of chromosomal races / Thomas A. White, Jan M. Wojcik and Jeremy B. Searle -- Meiosis and fertility associated with chromosomal heterozygosity / Pavel M. Borodin, Stanisław Fedyk, Włodzimierz Chętnicki, Anna A. Torgasheva, Svetlana V. Pavlova and Jeremy B. Searle -- Chromosomal hybrid zones / Stanisław Fedyk, Svetlana V. Pavlova, Włodzimierz Chętnicki and Jeremy B. Searle -- Gene flow between chromosomal races and species / GlennYannic, Patrick Basset, Agnès Horn and Jacques Hausser -- Geometric morphometric tests for phenotypic divergence between chromosomal races / P. David Polly and Jan M. Wojcik -- Is it really the chromosomes? / Patrick Basset, Glenn Yannic and Jacques Hausser -- Further divergence : the role of ecology and behaviour / Boris I. Sheftel, Natalia V. Moraleva and Jacques Hausser -- Climate, diversification and refugia in the common shrew : evidence from the fossil record / P. David Polly -- Shrews, chromosomes and speciation / Jeremy B. Searle, Jan Zima and P. David Polly |
| Summary |
Presents new insights into speciation through an in-depth analysis of extraordinary chromosomal variation in one species written by leading experts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shrews -- Genetics
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Shrews -- Speciation
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Evolutionary genetics.
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Genetic Speciation
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Genetics
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Shrews -- genetics
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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Evolutionary genetics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Searle, Jeremy B., editor.
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Polly, Paul David, editor.
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Zima, J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108750653 |
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1108750656 |
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9780511895531 |
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0511895534 |
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