Postglacial colonization in the Great Lakes Region by the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus): conflicts between genomic and field data

• Published in: Journal of mammalogy Vol. 103; no. 2; pp. 243 - 254
• Main Authors: Prado, Joyce R., Rubi, Tricia L., Baumgartner, Joseph, Hoffman, Susan M. G., Dantzer, Ben, Knowles, L. Lacey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: US American Society of Mammalogists 11.04.2022; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: climatic change; geographic barriers; phylogeography; pleistocene; rodentia; climatic change; pleistocene; geographic barriers; rodentia; phylogeography

For regions that were covered by ice during the Pleistocene glaciations, species must have emigrated from unglaciated regions. However, it can be difficult to discern when and from what ancestral source populations such expansions took place, especially since warming climates introduce the possibili...