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Driscoll, C.
An Appeal for Wildcat Samples and project Description
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The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, and the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, NCI-FCRF, USA, are together initiating a project in the conservation and phylogeography of the wildcat (Felis silvestris ssp.) .This project will develop a suite of diagnostic genetic markers useful in distinguishing wildcats from domestic cats or hybrids, define phylogeographic boundaries in wildcats, and determine the origin of domestication of the domestic cat.

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