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Epigenetic polymorphism in populations of Apodemus sylvaticus and Apodemus flavicollis (Rodentia, Muridae)
Author(s) -
Hedges S. R.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of zoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0952-8369
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1969.tb03899.x
Subject(s) - apodemus , biology , muridae , divergence (linguistics) , zoology , polymorphism (computer science) , evolutionary biology , genetic divergence , genetics , population , allele , gene , genetic diversity , demography , sociology , philosophy , linguistics
The main object of this study was to use discontinuous variation as a means of measuring divergence between populations of A. sylvaticus (L.) and A. flavicollis (Melchior) from Britain and Eurasia. Samples from 17 populations (671 skulls) were each classified for 20 discontinuous morphological variants. The investigation has shown that certain epigenetic variants have a characteristic incidence in populations of the two species and that the relative incidence of the variants could be used as an aid to specific separation. The calculation of degree of divergence between the populations has made it possible to suggest the order in which populations are related to each other.