Title : ( Geometric morphometric comparison of the mandibles of three species of vole of the genus Microtus (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from northern IranGeometric morphometric analysis of Iranian wood mice of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Murida )
Authors: , Jamshid Darvish , M. Mashkur , Jean-Denis Vigne ,
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Abstract
Geometric morphometric analysis of the molars in steppe field mouse Apodemus witherbyi (Rodentia: Steppe field mouse (Apodemus witherbyi( is a species with the wide distribution at Iran plateau. This species occurs syntopically with A. flavicolis and A. uralensis and is altitudinally parapatric with A. hyrcanicus. Morphological differences among four populations of Iranian wood mice belonging to A. witherbyi were investigated by outline-based geometric morphometrics method on the first and second upper molars (M1/ and M2/) and also M/2 of fossil specimens. These fossils are collected from Kordestan (Kan Mikaeil). The results indicated that A. witherbyi of East Azarbayijan was separated from populations of Tehran, Khorasan, Gorgan based on variations in the shapes of the M1/ and M2/. According to these results, specimens of NW Iran belong to subspecies different from Tehran, Khorasan, Gorgan subspecies. Moreover results of discriminant and clustering analysis shows those fossil specimens belong to A. witherbyi are ancestral and close to the population of East Azarbayijan.
Keywords
, Key word. Geometric Morphometric, A. witherbyi, East Azarbayijan, North Iran
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author = {, and Darvish, Jamshid and M. Mashkur and Jean-Denis Vigne},
title = {Geometric morphometric comparison of the mandibles of three species of vole of the genus Microtus (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from northern IranGeometric morphometric analysis of Iranian wood mice of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Murida},
booktitle = {ICAZ 2010},
year = {2010},
location = {پاریس, french},
keywords = {Key word. Geometric Morphometric; A. witherbyi; East Azarbayijan; North Iran},
}
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