Historic black rat invasions into Sri Lanka lead to hybridization forming two sub-lineages in the <em>Rattus rattus</em> species complex
<p>In this work, we used two mitochondrial (16S rRNA and cytochrome-<em>b</em>) and one nuclear (Rag 1) gene fragments to analyse phylogeographic history of black rats in Sri Lanka at subspecies level. Of the five subspecies recorded in Sri Lanka three (<em>Rattus rattus kela...
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| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Ceylon Journal of Science |
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| Online Access: | https://cjs.sljol.info/articles/7823 |