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Dec 1, 2017 · Fordham University graduate student Matthew Combs studies the DNA of New York City's rats. He found that rats living uptown are genetically distinct from rats living downtown.
Sep 15, 2016 · When people do see rats they are most likely to notice either the sickest or the boldest individuals—such as the “pizza rat” captured in a 2015 viral video—and make inaccurate generalizations...
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Apr 27, 2020 · April 27, 2020 / Rodents. Are Urban Rats the Same as Rural Rats? Are urban rodents more or less the same as their rural cousins, or are they as different as the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse in Aesop’s classic fable?
May 4, 2022 · Scientists Explain Why. Nature 04 May 2022. By Daniel Lawler, AFP. (Ludovic MOTTINI/Getty Images) Rats have been seen as filthy disease-spreaders since at least the time of the plague, but new research shows that rodents and other city-dwelling animals are less likely to cause the next pandemic than previously thought.
Jun 9, 2018 · The researchers captured at least 150 rats in each city, snipped off a bit of tissue and probed the samples for 15,000 genetic markers. By tracing subtle differences in mutations among rat populations, the scientists identified where different rat families had clustered.
Jul 31, 2018 · Munshi-South agreed, saying this study is a model for future ones in cities across the globe. The days of studying a single species in a single city are over, he said. “One of the big hypotheses that’s out there is that urbanization drives the same ecological and evolutionary results over and over again,” he said.
Jun 5, 2018 · In the new report, the biologist and his colleagues mapped the genetics of rats in four cities in the New World: New Orleans, New York, Vancouver and the Brazilian city of Salvador.
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