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SUBMITTER: Aplin KP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3206810 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aplin Ken P KP Suzuki Hitoshi H Chinen Alejandro A AA Chesser R Terry RT Ten Have José J Donnellan Stephen C SC Austin Jeremy J Frost Angela A Gonzalez Jean Paul JP Herbreteau Vincent V Catzeflis Francois F Soubrier Julien J Fang Yin-Ping YP Robins Judith J Matisoo-Smith Elizabeth E Bastos Amanda D S AD Maryanto Ibnu I Sinaga Martua H MH Denys Christiane C Van Den Bussche Ronald A RA Conroy Chris C Rowe Kevin K Cooper Alan A
PloS one 20111102 11
The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) spread out of Asia to become one of the world's worst agricultural and urban pests, and a reservoir or vector of numerous zoonotic diseases, including the devastating plague. Despite the global scale and inestimable cost of their impacts on both human livelihoods and natural ecosystems, little is known of the global genetic diversity of Black Rats, the timing and directions of their historical dispersals, and the risks associated with contemporary movements. We surv ...[more]