VKORC 1 mutation in European populations of Rattus norvegicus with first data for Italy and the report of a new amino acid substitution

1Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy 2National Research Council, Institute of Agro-environmental and Forest Biology, Via Salaria km 29.300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy 3Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy 4Latium Region-Regional Park Agency, Biodiversity and Geodiversity Area, Rome, Italy 5Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Belgium 6Julius Kühn Institute, Münster, Germany 7Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 8Zoo La Palmyre, Les Mathes, France 9Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers, Granollers, Barcelona, Spain and Section of Parasitology, Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 10Natural History Museum and Department of Ecology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

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