Variation in mitochondrial DNA in populations of Peromyscus eremicus from the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts Academic Article

abstract

• A 1,439-bp region of the mitochondrial DNA was analyzed for restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms (RFLPs) within and among populations of cactus mice (Peromyscus eremicus) from the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts. Although five mtDNA haplotypes were detected, none of these was shared between Sonoran and Chihuahuan populations. All analyses of the RFLP variation and concordant morphological, biochemical, and biogeographic data are consistent with the hypothesis that the P. eremicus from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts represent recently diverged species. Pliocene or late Pleistocene pluvial-interpluvial climatic fluctuations are implicated as the primary mechanism in the diversification of the cactus mice from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.

authors

• Greenbaum, Ira

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

author list (cited authors)

• Walpole, D. K., Davis, S. K., & Greenbaum, I. F.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Walpole, DK||Davis, SK||Greenbaum, IF

publication date

• January 1997

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY  Journal

keywords

• Mtdna Variation
• Peromyscus Eremicus

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/1382893

start page

• 397

end page

• 404

volume

• 78

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.2307%2F1382893