Objective
The inter- and intraspecific genetic diversity of European wild mice provides a system for the study of evolutionary processes that is difficult to find elsewhere. Complex phenomena such as the hybridisation between genomes that are already partially incompatible and the fixation of rearranged genomes still occur. In Denmark these two phenomena interfere and their study both in situ and in the laboratory provides an excellent model for investigating the mechanisms underlying genetic evolution. Minisatellite probes will be used to study hybrid dysgenesis while the measurement of meiotic distortion will be used to provide information about chromosomal evolution. Furthermore, the collection of genetic variants and the establishment of new laboratory lines will increase the depository of wild mice strains that is already available for scientists in many different disciplines
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34095 Montpellier
France