naa a22 4500 510744907 CHVBK 20180411083042.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13364-012-0102-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13364-012-0102-0 The origin of Swedish and Norwegian populations of the Eurasian harvest mouse ( Micromys minutus ) [Elektronische Daten] [Lars Råberg, Jon Loman, Olof Hellgren, Jeroen van der Kooij, Kjell Isaksen, Roar Solheim] The harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) occurs throughout most of continental Europe. There are also two isolated and recently discovered populations on the Scandinavian peninsula, in Sweden and Norway. Here, we investigate the origin of these populations through analyses of mitochondrial DNA. We found that the two populations on the Scandinavian peninsula have different mtDNA haplotypes. A comparison of our haplotypes to published sequences from most of Europe showed that all Swedish and Norwegian haplotypes are most closely related to the haplotypes in harvest mice from Denmark. Hence, the two populations seem to represent independent colonisations but originate from the same geographical area. We discuss the age of the Swedish and Norwegian populations and suggest that both have been introduced recently. Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland, 2012 Control region nationallicence Cytochrome b nationallicence Phylogeography nationallicence Råberg Lars Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut Loman Jon Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut Hellgren Olof Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut van der Kooij Jeroen Norwegian Zoological Society, Blindern, P.O. Box 102, 0314, Oslo, Norway aut Isaksen Kjell Norwegian Zoological Society, Blindern, P.O. Box 102, 0314, Oslo, Norway aut Solheim Roar Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, Gimlemoen, P.O. Box 1887, 4686, Kristiansand, Norway aut Acta Theriologica Springer-Verlag 58/1(2013-01-01), 101-104 0001-7051 58:1<101 2013 58 13364 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-012-0102-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-012-0102-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Råberg Lars Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Loman Jon Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hellgren Olof Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Kooij Jeroen Norwegian Zoological Society, Blindern, P.O. Box 102, 0314, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Isaksen Kjell Norwegian Zoological Society, Blindern, P.O. Box 102, 0314, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Solheim Roar Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, Gimlemoen, P.O. Box 1887, 4686, Kristiansand, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Theriologica Springer-Verlag 58/1(2013-01-01), 101-104 0001-7051 58:1<101 2013 58 13364 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer