Spreading Rats Worldwide (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Spreading Rats Worldwide

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A new study, published in the advanced online edition of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, has revealed that brown rats originally migrated 'Out of Asia' from southern East Asia about 3,600 years ago, rapidly spreading, first into the Middle East, and then to Europe and Africa.

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Kunming Institute of Zoology

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