| old mice, young islands and competing biogeographical hypotheses. | naturally occurring variation within a small rodent species native to the southeastern usa, peromyscus polionotus, has interested biologists for nearly a century. this species has contributed significantly to our understanding of geographical variation and has often been presented as an example of adaptive evolution. much of the interest in this organism has been predicated on assumptions that the species is relatively young (<300 000 bp) and that coastal populations have a very recent history ( ... | 2007 | 17956552 |
| genetic reassortment among viruses causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. | in order to determine the frequency and characteristics of reassortment among viruses causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps), mixed infections were initiated in tissue culture by using two closely related strains of sin nombre virus, cc107 (from eastern california) and nmr11 (from new mexico), which share the same species of rodent host in nature, the deer mouse (peromyscus maniculatus). potential reassortant virus plaques were screened by multiplex rt-pcr, using primers specific for indivi ... | 1998 | 9501041 |
| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in florida: association with the newly identified black creek canal virus. | hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) is a recently recognized viral zoonosis. the first recognized cases were caused by a newly described hantavirus. sin nombre virus (previously known as muerto canyon virus), isolated from peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse). we describe a 33-year-old floridian man who resided outside the ecologic range of p maniculatus but was found to have serologic evidence of a hantavirus infection during evaluation of azotemia associated with adult respiratory distress synd ... | 1996 | 8579086 |