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How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights

Ancient-genomics studies are boosting efforts to save Scotland’s endangered ‘Highland tigers’ — and keep them separate from domestic cats.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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In a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, researchers are about to see what happens when cats go wild.

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Nature 623, 463-465 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03451-2

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