Abstract: Dating the arrival of invasive species in a new region and reconstructing their colonization processes and routes serve multiple research goals. They help us to understand the dynamics of species’ introduced range expansion (Hingston et al. 2005), to trace movements of people and elucidate the history of their settlement especially when the introduced species are commensal or domestic (Matisoo-Smith et al. 1998; MatisooSmith and Robins 2004; Searle et al. 2009), and to explain the spread of zoonotic diseases across regions (Audouin-Rouzeau 20...
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Topics: 
Zoology
Ecology