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Natural selection on feralization genes contributed to the invasive spread of wild pigs throughout the United States.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2024
Barmentlo Niek W G, Meirmans Patrick G, Stiver William H, Yarkovich Joseph G, McCann Blake E, Piaggio Antoinette J, Wright Dominic, Smyser Timothy J, Bosse Mirte
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Despite a long presence in the contiguous United States (US), the distribution of invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa × domesticus) has expanded rapidly since the 1980s, suggesting a more recent evolutionary shift towards greater invasiveness. Contemporary populations of wild pigs represent exoferal hybrid descendants of domestic pigs and European wild boar, with such hybridization expected to enrich genetic diversity...
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