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Restriction maps of milochondrial DNA of the Indian pygmy field miceMus booduga andM. terricolor, and the house mouseM. musculus tytleri were determined with seven six-cutter restriction enzymes. The restriction map of the mitochondrial DNA of the laboratory mouseM. m. domesticus was used as a reference. Pairwise comparison was made of the mitochondrial DNAs for the presence or absence of the restriction sites, and per cent sequence divergence was calculated. The results show that the sequence divergence betweenbooduga andterricolor is 8-7% while thedomesticus-tytleri andbooduga-terricolor groups are divergent by 16-3%. The mtDNA sequence divergences we have obtained suggest that thebooduga-terricolor lineage might not have diverged before the Southeast Asiancervicolor-cookii-caroli lineage during evolution of these lineages of the subgenusMus as inferred by others earlier. On the other hand, it seems likely that these lineages evolved in parallel.
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Chatterjee, B., Bahadur, M. & Sharma, T. Mitochondrial DNA restriction maps ofMus booduga, Mus terricolor andMus musculus tytleri . J. Genet. 73, 57–64 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927942
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