Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (<i>Rattus rattus</i>) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history
Yu He|Alexandra Jamieson|Ardern Hulme-Beaman|Chris J. Conroy|Becky Knight|Camilla Speller|Hiba Al-Jarah|Heidi Eager|Alexandra Trinks|G. Adikari|Henriette Baron|Beate Böhlendorf‐Arslan|Wijerathne Bohingamuwa|Alison Crowther|Thomas Cucchi|Kinie Esser|Jeffrey Fleisher|Louisa Gidney|Elena Gladilina|Pavel Gol’din|Steven M. Goodman|Sheila Hamilton‐Dyer|Richard Helm|Christopher Hillman|Nabil Kallala|Hanna Kivikero|Zsófia Eszter Kovács|Günther Karl Kunst|René Kyselý|Anna Linderholm|Bouthéina Maraoui-Telmini|Arturo Morales‐Muñiz|Mariana Nabais|T. P. O'Connor|Tarek Oueslati|Quintana Morales|M. Eréndira|Kerstin Pasda|Jude Perera|Nimal Perera|Silvia Radbauer|Joan Ramon|Eve Rannamäe|Joan Sanmartí Grego|Edward R. Treasure|Silvía Valenzuela-Lamas|Inge van der Jagt|Wim Van Neer|Jean‐Denis Vigne|Thomas Walker|Stephanie Wynne‐Jones|Jørn T. Zeiler|Keith Dobney|Nicole Boivin|Jeremy B. Searle|Ben Krause‐Kyora|Johannes Krause|Greger Larson|David Orton
Abstract The distribution of the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. dispersal history this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during Roman medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct population European rats, we generated a de novo genome assembly rat, 67 ancient mitogenomes 36 nuclear genomes from sites spanning 1 st -17 th centuries CE Europe North Africa. Analyses mitochondrial DNA confirm that rats were introduced into Mediterranean Southwest Asia. Genomic analyses reveal turnover temperate between 6 10 CE, coincident an archaeologically attested decline population. near disappearance re-emergence result breakdown Empire, First Plague Pandemic, and/or post-Roman climatic cooling.
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