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PhD project titled: Evolutionary ecology of black rats, a super-invasive species.

Black rats are considered among the top 100 most destructive invasive species worldwide. While less is known in Tasmania, studies suggest that there are three subspecies of black rats on mainland Australia: the Chinese subspecies, the Indian subspecies, and the Indonesian subspecies. The project will use genomic and morphometric analyses to determine the pattern of spatial phenotypic and genetic variation, their trophic interactions with native and alien invasive species, and to assess their impacts on native small mammals in the Tasmanian environment through genomic and ecological investigations and comparisons against the native Australian Rattus species in Tasmania, swamp rats.

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