Zoological Society of London

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a significant burden on global economies and public health. Their emergence is thought to be driven largely by socio-economic, environmen...

Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria: (i) EIDs associated with...

Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates

Genetic diversity and introgression in the Scottish wildcat

Abstract This paper describes a genetic analysis of wild‐living cats in Scotland. Samples from 230 wild‐living Scottish cats (including 13 museum skins) and 74 house cats from E...

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Estimation of Admixture Proportions: A Likelihood-Based Approach Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Abstract When populations are separated for long periods and then brought into contact for a brief episode in part of their range, this can result in genetic admixture. To analy...

Patterns of nuclear DNA degeneration over time — a case study in historic teeth samples

Abstract The amount of nuclear DNA extracted from teeth of 279 individual red fox Vulpes vulpes collected over a period spanning the last three decades was determined by quantit...