| spatio-temporal variation in the strength and mode of selection acting on major histocompatibility complex diversity in water vole (arvicola terrestris) metapopulations. | patterns of spatio-temporal genetic variation at a class ii major histocompatibility complex (mhc) locus and multiple microsatellite loci were analysed within and between three water vole metapopulations in scotland, uk. comparisons of mhc and microsatellite spatial genetic differentiation, based on standardised tests between two demographically asynchronous zones within a metapopulation, suggested that spatial mhc variation was affected by balancing selection, directional selection and random g ... | 2009 | 19140966 |
| phylogeographic structure and postglacial evolutionary history of water voles (arvicola terrestris) in the united kingdom. | the phylogeographic pattern of mitochondrial dna variation in water voles (arvicola terrestris) from 57 localities across the united kingdom and representative samples from spain, france, switzerland and finland was determined from sequence variation in the central portion of the control region. twenty-seven different haplotypes were resolved which formed two distinct phylogenetic clades. this major division separated haplotypes found in scotland from those found in england and wales. nested cla ... | 2005 | 15813782 |