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2011
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Colonization of Ireland: revisiting ‘the pygmy shrew syndrome’ using mitochondrial, Y chromosomal and microsatellite markers
There is great uncertainty about how Ireland attained its current fauna and flora. Long-distance human-mediated colonization from southwestern Europe has been seen as a possible way that Ireland obtained many of its species; however, Britain has (surprisingly) been neglected as a source area for Ireland. The pygmy shrew has long...McDevitt, A D ; Vega, R ; Rambau, Ramugondo V ; Yannic, G ; Herman, Jeremy S …
phylogeography, cytochrome b, British Isles, human introduction, Sorex minutus, and range expansion