Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) 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|Jesse C. Hillman|Nabil Kallala|Hanna Kivikero|Zsófia Eszter Kovács|Günther Karl Kunst|René Kyselý|Anna Linderholm|Bouthéina Maraoui-Telmini|Nemanja Marković|Arturo Morales‐Muñiz|Mariana Nabais|T. P. O'Connor|Tarek Oueslati|Eréndira M. Quintana Morales|Kerstin Pasda|Jude Perera|Nimal Perera|Silvia Radbauer|Joan Ramon|Eve Rannamäe|Joan Sanmartí Grego|Edward R. Treasure|Sílvia 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
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 first generate a de novo genome assembly rat. We then sequence 67 ancient three modern mitogenomes, 36 nuclear genomes from archaeological sites spanning 1st-17th centuries CE Europe North Africa. Analyses our newly reported sequences, together published mitochondrial DNA confirm that rats were introduced into Mediterranean Southwest Asia. Genomic analyses reveal turnover temperate between 6th 10th 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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