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The purpose of this communication is to revise and clarify the position regarding house mouse populations with Robertsonian chromosomes in the northern Scottish county of Caithness.
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Scriven, P., Brooker, P. Caithness revisited: Robertsonian chromosome polymorphism in Caithness house mice. Heredity 64, 25–27 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1990.4
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