'Freaky Mouse' Defeats Common Poison: House Mice Found Unexpected Ways to Evolve Resistance, Study Shows
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Vkorc1 seemed out of place, he said. "The gene sequence was identical to Mus spretus, which looks similar to house mice but does not normally occur in Germany," he said. "We could see that a big chunk of their DNA looked like Mus spretus. But genetically, these obscure bromadiolone-resistant mice looked like ordinary house mice. This is a freaky mouse."
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The other process, horizontal gene transfer, is generally associated with microbes, not mammals, and has never been documented at the level of detail the new paper offers, Kohn said. Here, resistance seems to have been transferred directly from Algerian mice to European house mice (Mus musculus domesticus).
http://www.scienceda...10721121541.htm
http://www.cell.com/...t/S0960-9822(11)00716-0
Edited by rwac, 22 July 2011 - 06:10 AM.
