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eastern chipmunk

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Noun1.eastern chipmunkeastern chipmunk - small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
squirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
genus Tamias, Tamias - chipmunks of eastern North America


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On July 28 and 29, 20 animals were captured, including 17 house mice, 1 white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), 1 short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), and 1 eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus).
Kevin Rowe and Ken Paige, biologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used DNA (chemical that carries hereditary information) samples to trace the ancestors of 244 eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus (tuh-MY-us stree-AT-us).
Researchers tallied the mutations in mitochondrial DNA extracted from small tissue samples from 244 eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus, captured at 25 sites in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan.
 
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