Josette Catalan

TL;DR: Thirteen biochemical groups of wild mice from Europe, Asia, and Africa belonging to the genus Mus are analyzed at 22–42 protein loci and Phylogenetic trees are proposed and patterns of biochemical evolution are discussed.

TL;DR: This work has used two species, Mus musculus domesticus and Mus spretus, which interact as sympatric species but can be interbred under laboratory conditions, to follow the segregation of genes encoding different isoforms of myosin alkali light chains in the backcross progeny between these species and to compare this with that of other contractile protein genes.

TL;DR: It is shown that house mice on Madeira have an unexpected chromosomal diversity, the evolution of which is independent of adaptive processes, relying instead on geographic isolation and genetic drift.

TL;DR: It is found that the embryonic, perinatal, and adult skeletal MHC genes are clustered on chromosome 11 near the locus nude, the skeletal and cardiac M HC genes do not cosegregate, and the alpha(V1) cardiac MHC gene is located on chromosome 14 close to Np-1.

TL;DR: The molecular signatures of the recent expansion of the western house mouse around the Mediterranean basin are investigated through the study of mitochondrial D-loop polymorphism on a 1313 individual dataset, confirming a recent expansion for the whole subspecies.