Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats

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

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Main Authors:	Ken P. Aplin, Hitoshi Suzuki, Ro A. Chinen, R. Terry Chesser, Jose ́ Ten Have, Stephen C, Jeremy Austin, Angela Frost, Jean Paul Gonzalez, Vincent Herbreteau, Ibnu Maryanto, Martua H. Sinaga, Christiane Denys, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, Kevin Rowe, Alan Cooper
Other Authors:	The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format:	Text
Language:	English
Subjects:	Rattus rattus
Online Access:	http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.593.1459 http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/71/43/83/PDF/Aplin_Black_rat_cytb_PLoSOne_2011.pdf

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Summary:	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