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Research overview: hybridization as the central wildcat conservation threat
OverviewFor several wildcat populations, the greatest threat is not habitat loss or persecution but genetic assimilation through hybridization with domestic cats. This overview examines how introgression enda…
Research overview: hybridization between wildcats and domestic cats
OverviewThe European wildcat faces a genetic threat from interbreeding with free-ranging domestic cats, which can erode the wild population's distinct genome through introgression. This overview surveys genet…
Research overview: the genetic plight of the Scottish wildcat
OverviewThe Scottish wildcat, the last wild felid native to Britain, is threatened less by direct persecution than by hybridization with domestic and feral cats that has blurred its genetic distinctiveness. T…