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Morphometric variation of populations of House mice Mus demesticus in Britain and Faroe
Author(s) -
Davis Simon J. M.
Publication year - 1983
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.1469-7998.1983.tb05103.x
Subject(s) - shetland , mainland , biology , archipelago , house mouse , variation (astronomy) , danish , house mice , mainland china , zoology , archaeology , geography , ecology , china , linguistics , philosophy , physics , astrophysics , forestry
A multivariate analysis was made of the mandible shape of wild‐caught House mice from the British mainland, various circum‐British islands and Faroe. Shape variation within any one of the three archipelagoes—Faroe, Shetland, Orkney—is greater than within mainland Britain excluding Caithness. This is probably due to the founder effect, as well as reduced subsequent swamping. The grouping of Caithness mice with those of Orkney, Shetland and Faroe may reflect their Scandinavian origin.