Phylogeography of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) with particular emphasis on the colonization of the Orkney archipelago

@article{Haynes2003PhylogeographyOT,  title={Phylogeography of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) with particular emphasis on the colonization of the Orkney archipelago},  author={Susan Turner Haynes and Maarit Jaarola and Jeremy B. Searle},  journal={Molecular Ecology},  year={2003},  volume={12},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2819914}}
Orkney voles belonged to the same phylogenetic lineage, ‘Western’, as individuals from France and Spain indicating southwestern Europe as the most likely source area for the islands, and phylogeographical data suggest that M. arvalis occupied multiple refugia during the last glaciation.

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