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Evolutionary history of the brown rat: out of southern East Asia and selection

2016-12-26

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The brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) is found wherever humans live and transmits many diseases, and its breeding produced the laboratory rat used widely in medical research. Here, we sequenced whole genomes from 118 rats to explore the origin and dispersal routes of the brown rat and the domestication of the laboratory rat. We showed that brown rats migrated about 3600 years ago from southern East Asia, rather tha...

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Literature Corpus work: a599b407-6690-5145-a8d2-bca5ae35ded3
DOI: 10.1101/096800

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