The global crisis of the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an enormous burden not only on the health, social, and economic sectors but also on many essential municipal services. Water distribution and wastewater management have faced increasing uncertainty due to the possible transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) via aerosols. Additionally, behavioral and social chan...

Methods recently developed to infer population structure and admixture mostly use individual genotypes described by unlinked neutral markers. However, Hardy–Weinberg and linkage disequilibria among independent markers decline rapidly with admixture time, and the admixture signals could be lost in a few generations. In this study, we aimed to describe genetic admixture in 182 European wild and domestic cats ( Felis silvestris )...

The genetic integrity and evolutionary persistence of declining wildcat populations are threatened by crossbreeding with widespread free‐living domestic cats. Here we use allelic variation at 12 microsatellite loci to describe genetic variation in 336 cats sampled from nine European countries. Cats were identified as European wildcats ( Felis silvestris silvestris ), Sardinian wildcats ( F. s. libyca ) and domestic cats ( F. s...

The taxonomic status of the Italian hare Lepus corsicanus has been uncertain since its first description by W. E. de Winton in 1898 (de Winton WE. Annual Magazine of Natural History , London , 1898, 1 , 149–158). The distribution range of this species has shrunk severely over the last few decades owing to overhunting and restocking with nonindigenous brown hares ( L. europaeus ) in central and southern Italy and Sicily. Recent...