%0 Journal Article
%A Yu, He
%A Jamieson, Alexandra
%A Hulme-Beaman, Ardern
%A Conroy, Chris J.
%A Knight, Becky
%A Speller, Camilla
%A Al-Jarah, Hiba
%A Eager, Heidi
%A Trinks, Alexandra
%A Adikari, Gamini
%A Baron, Henriette
%A Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate
%A Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne
%A Crowther, Alison
%A Cucchi, Thomas
%A Esser, Kinie
%A Fleisher, Jeffrey
%A Gidney, Louisa
%A Gladilina, Elena
%A Gol’din, Pavel
%A Goodman, Steven M.
%A Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila
%A Helm, Richard
%A Hillman, Jesse C.
%A Kallala, Nabil
%A Kivikero, Hanna
%A Kovács, Zsófia E.
%A Kunst, Günther Karl
%A Kyselý, René
%A Linderholm, Anna
%A Maraoui-Telmini, Bouthéina
%A Marković, Nemanja
%A Morales-Muñiz, Arturo
%A Nabais, Mariana
%A O’Connor, Terry
%A Oueslati, Tarek
%A Quintana Morales, Eréndira M.
%A Pasda, Kerstin
%A Perera, Jude
%A Perera, Nimal
%A Radbauer, Silvia
%A Ramon, Joan
%A Rannamäe, Eve
%A Sanmartí Grego, Joan
%A Treasure, Edward
%A Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
%A van der Jagt, Inge
%A Van Neer, Wim
%A Vigne, Jean-Denis
%A Walker, Thomas
%A Wynne-Jones, Stephanie
%A Zeiler, Jørn
%A Dobney, Keith
%A Boivin, Nicole
%A Searle, Jeremy B.
%A Krause-Kyora, Ben
%A Krause, Johannes
%A Larson, Greger
%A Orton, David
%+ Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-6451-A
%R 10.1038/s41467-022-30009-z
%7 2022-05-03
%D 2022
%8 03.05.2022
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The distribution of the black rat (Rattus rattus) has been heavily influenced by its association<br>with humans. The dispersal history of this non-native commensal rodent across Europe,<br>however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during<br>the Roman and medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct the population history of<br>European black rats, we first generate a de novo genome assembly of the black rat. We then<br>sequence 67 ancient and three modern black rat mitogenomes, and 36 ancient and three<br>modern nuclear genomes from archaeological sites spanning the 1st-17th centuries CE in<br>Europe and North Africa. Analyses of our newly reported sequences, together with published<br>mitochondrial DNA sequences, confirm that black rats were introduced into the Mediterra-<br>nean and Europe from Southwest Asia. Genomic analyses of the ancient rats reveal a<br>population turnover in temperate Europe between the 6th and 10th centuries CE, coincident<br>with an archaeologically attested decline in the black rat population. The near disappearance<br>and re-emergence of black rats in Europe may have been the result of the breakdown of the<br>Roman Empire, the First Plague Pandemic, and/or post-Roman climatic cooling.
%K Archaeology,  Population genetics

%J Nature Communications
%V 13
%] 2399
%@ 2041-1723