Möss och vikingar

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Genom DNA analyser av husmöss kan man följa vikingarnas resor och kolonisation:

The Viking Journey of Mice and Men

House mice (Mus musculus) happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology has used evolutionary techniques on modern day and ancestral mouse mitochondrial DNA to show that the timeline of mouse colonization matches that of Viking invasion.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319094801.htm

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Här kan man läsa den vetenskapliga artikeln

E P Jones, K Skirnisson, T H McGovern, M TP Gilbert, E Willerslev and J B Searle 2012:´Fellow travellers: a concordance of colonization patterns between mice and men in the North Atlantic region.´BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:35

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-12-35.pdf