Global population divergence and admixture of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Native to China and Mongolia, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) now enjoys a worldwide distribution. While black rats and the house mouse tracked the regional development of human agricultural settlements, brown rats did not appear in Europe until the 1500s, suggesting their range expansion was a re...
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Royal Society
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37772/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37772/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37772/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37772/1/Puckett_etal-RatPhylogeog-bioarXiv.pdf |