[bionet.population-bio] social behavior retarding gene flow

AEBAKER%CSUGREEN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (ann baker biology dept 303 491 5307) (10/14/90)

Parallel studies exist for small mammals. Workers include
   Jerry Wolff
   Marita Sheridan
   Robert Tamarin
   Gail Michener
   John(?) Hoogland
   Paul Sherman
The journal Behav Ecol Sociobiol has several of these papers.
My chapter in the 1990 book "LIVING IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT"
reviews this literature for house mice. Vincent Bauchau, Janice
Britton-Davidian are examining experimentally and descriptively
how/if Robertsonian translocations influence mating relations in
house mice. Zuleyma Halpin and Diane Chepko Sade edited a book
(1986?) dealing with this topic. Of course the Yanomama and other
anthropological genetics literature might also be cited.

Usually forgotten is that gene flow might cause greater genetic
differentiation when kin groups disperse together. I searched for
evidence of kin group migration in Mus, but found no example in
literature and collected no such data when studying movements of
house mice.

Forgot: to above list add Jim Patton, Joanne Daly.

Ann Eileen Miller Baker
Department of Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins 80523
303 491 5307
aebaker@csugreen