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Valentina Rovelli

University of Rome Tor Vergata

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The dispersal of domestic cats from Northern Africa and their introduction to Europe over the last two millennia

M. De Martino, Bea De Cupere, Valentina Rovelli, Patrizia Serventi, Marica Baldoni, Tullia Di Corcia, Sheila Geiger, Francesca Alhaique, Paulo C. Alves, Hijlke Buitenhuis, Emanuela Ceccaroni, Eugenio Cerilli, Jacopo De Grossi-Mazzorin, Cleia Detry, Marion Dowd, , Claudio Ottoni

This study uses ancient and modern cat genomes to show domestic cats reached Europe within the last 2,000 years from North Africa, not with Neolithic farmers, and identifies an earlier wildcat introduction to Sardinia.

bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology