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Table 1 Details of the modern and ancient (mostly Viking Age) samples of house mouse used in this study.

From: Fellow travellers: a concordance of colonization patterns between mice and men in the North Atlantic region

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Location

Country

N (subsp)

N

(mt)

Year (AD)

mt clade

mtDNA haplotype

1

Bolungarvik

Iceland

3

3

2003-2006

F

U47436

2

Mosfellsbær

Iceland

3

3

2003

F

U47436

2

Keldur Institute, Reykjavik

Iceland

2

5

1992

F

U47436

2

Kópavogur

Iceland

3

3

1998-2005

F

U47436

2

Öldugrof, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

2

2004

E

U47430

2

Smidshofdi, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

1

2004

F

U47436

2

Breidholt, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

1

2004

F

IRB1

2

Grafarvogur, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

2

2003-2004

F

U47436

2

Arbær, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

1

2004

E

IRA1

2

Naustabryggja, Reykjavik

Iceland

1

1

2004

F

U47436

3

Storhofdi Lighthouse,

Westman Islands

Iceland

3

9

1996

F

U47436, IRB1

3

Heimaey, Westman Islands

Iceland

3

4

1992-2006

F

U47436

4

Kalfafell, Sudursveit

Iceland

3

4

2005

F

U47436

5

Smyrlabjorg, Sudursveit

Iceland

-

3

? Modern

F

U47436

6

Reydarfjordur

Iceland

3

5

2005-2006

F

U47436

7

Asbrandsstadir, Vopnafjordur

Iceland

3

5

2005

F

IAs1

9

Sveinbjarnargerdi, Svalbardsstrond

Iceland

4

4

2006

D

ISv1

10

Narsaq

Greenland

2

2

2010

D1

U47455

13

Saint Andrew's, Codroy, Newfoundland

Canada

6

4

2008

E

U47431

13

Searston, Codroy, Newfoundland

Canada

5

5

2008

E

U47431

14

Hammond Farm, Steady Brook, Newfoundland

Canada

6

6

2008

E

NLPB1

15

Pynn's Brook, Newfoundland

Canada

1

1

2008

E

NLPB1

16

Site 1, Cormack, Newfoundland

Canada

5

6

2008

E,C

U47431, NLCo1

16

Site 2, Cormack, Newfoundland

Canada

6

5

2008

E,C

U47431, NLCo1

8

Hofstaðir, Myvatnssveit1

Iceland

-

1

940

F

U47436

8

Skutustadir, Myvatnssveit2

Iceland

-

2

1477-1717

F

U47436

8

Hrísheimar, Myvatnssveit3

Iceland

-

1

871-940

F

U47436

8

Sveigakot, Myvatnssveit4

Iceland

-

1

900-1000

F

U47436

11

Farm Beneath the Sand

(old Western Settlement)5

Greenland

-

2

1110-1150

F

AnctGL

12

Vatnahverfi

(old Eastern Settlement)6

Greenland

-

3

1015-1165

F

AnctGL

  1. 'N (subsp)' is the number of samples tested for the subspecies specific markers, 'N (mt)' is the number of mtDNA sequences obtained. Haplotype names in the format 'U474xx' are from [11], all others are new for this study. All are archived in GenBank.
  2. 1 Dated from tephra layers [16].
  3. 2 Dated from context [18].
  4. 3 Dated from tephra layers [15].
  5. 4 Dated from context [17].
  6. 5 Dated from AMS 14 C data [14].
  7. 6 Dated from context [13].