The demographic history of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) in eastern North America.

ABSTRACT: The Western European house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) is a widespread human commensal that has recently been introduced to North America. Its introduction to the Americas is thought to have resulted from the transatlantic movements of Europeans that began in the early 16th century. To study the details of this colonization history, we examine population structure, explore relevant demographic models, and infer the timing of divergence among house mouse populations in the eastern United States using published exome sequences from five North American populations and two European populations. For North American populations of house mice, levels of nucleotide variation were lower, and low-frequency alleles were less common than for European populations. These patterns provide evidence of

SUBMITTER: Agwamba KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911051 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature