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Population genetics of the European rabbit along a rural-to-urban gradient.
Scientific reports - 12 Feb 2020
Ziege Madlen, Theodorou Panagiotis, Jüngling Hannah, Merker Stefan, Plath Martin, Streit Bruno, Lerp Hannes
Abstract excerpt
The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is declining in large parts of Europe but populations in some German cities remained so far unaffected by this decline. The question arises of how urbanization affects patterns of population genetic variation and differentiation in German rabbit populations, as urban habitat fragmentation may result in altered meta-population dynamics. To address this question, we used...
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