Authors: Eréndira M., Tarek Oueslati, Becky Knight, Keith Dobney, Zsófia E. Kovács, Chris Hillman, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Bouthéina Maraoui-Telmini, David Orton, Nabil Kallala, Günther Karl Kunst, Henriette Baron, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Alexandra Jamieson, Pavel Gol'din, Mariana Nabais, Chris J. Conroy, Richard F. Helm, Hiba Al-Jarah, Camilla Speller, Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas, Inge van der Jagt, Thomas Cucchi, Johannes Krause, Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, E. V. Gladilina, René Kyselý, Alison Crowther, Wim Van Neer, Heidi Eager, Nimal Perera, Thomas Walker, Eve Rannamäe, Jean-Denis Vigne, Alexandra Trinks, Steven M. Goodman, Jeremy B. Searle, Jude Perera, Anna Linderholm, Jeffrey Fleisher, Wijerathne Bohingamuwa, Joan Sanmartí Grego, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Hanna Kivikero, Jørn Zeiler, Kinie Esser, Louisa Gidney, Silvia Radbauer, Greger Larson, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Terry O'Connor, Kerstin Pasda, Quintana Morales, Ben Krause-Kyora, Joan Ramon, G. Adikari, He Yu, Edward R. Treasure, Nicole Boivin

Venue: Nature Communications

Type: Publication

Abstract: AbstractThe distribution of the black rat (Rattus rattus) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. The dispersal history of this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during the Roman and medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct the population history of European black rats, we first generate a de novo genome assembly of the black rat. We then sequence 67 ancient and three modern black rat mitogenomes, and 36 ancient and three modern... (read more)

DOI: 10.60692/16m0w-pe626