The house mice of Faray, Orkney

R. J. Berry; A. J. Berry; T. J.C. Anderson; P. Scriven

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04605.x

The house mice of Faray, Orkney

R. J. Berry, A. J. Berry, T. J.C. Anderson, P. Scriven

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Faray is a 250 ha island in Orkney, uninhabited by humans since 1946. The only small mammal is the house mouse, Mus domesticus, which between 1982 and 1986 fluctuated in numbers from a maximum of 400–500 to less than 50. Over the period when the population was at its smallest, the frequency of Hbb^s increased from 29.1% to 46.6%. There was also a decrease in the frequency of a Robertsonian translocation, Rb (4.10) from 36.4% to 13.3% during the study period; two other Robertsonian chromosomes, Rb (3.14) and Rb (9.12), were always homozygous. The change at the Hbb locus is probably the result of genetic drift; this conclusion was reached only after other possibilities were excluded. 1992 The Zoological Society of London

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	233-246
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Zoology
Volume	228
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04605.x
State	Published - Oct 1992
Externally published	Yes

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Animal Science and Zoology

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