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@rattus_mattus @pleunipennings @gallina_ciega @arbelharpak @nanditagarud @PetrovADmitri Yes, as others have mentioned future work will be needed to clarify the timing and geographical origins of potentially adaptive variants. We have previously looked a…
@pleunipennings @gallina_ciega @arbelharpak @nanditagarud @PetrovADmitri @urbanevol The Munshi-South lab looked at global patterns of rat admixture showing that most East Coast rats have common British/French origin. So if adaptations happened before ju…