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Extensive genome introgression between domestic ferret and European polecat during population recovery in Great Britain.
The Journal of heredity - 21 Oct 2022
Etherington Graham J, Ciezarek Adam, Shaw Rebecca, Michaux Johan, Croose Elizabeth, Haerty Wilfried, Di Palma Federica
Abstract excerpt
The European polecat (Mustela putorius) is a mammalian predator which occurs across much of Europe east to the Ural Mountains. In Great Britain, following years of persecution the range of the European polecat contracted and by the early 1900s was restricted to unmanaged forests of central Wales. The European polecat has recently undergone a population increase due to legal protection and its range now overlaps...
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