Human impact is noticeable around the globe, indicating that a new era might have begun:
the Anthropocene. Continuing human activities, including land‐use changes, introduction of …

The European wildcat population in Scotland is considered critically endangered as a result
of hybridization with introduced domestic cats, 1, 2 though the time frame over which this …

Simple Summary The free-ranging unowned domestic cat (unowned—not under human
control with respect to movement and sexual behaviour), living in the Anthropocene, can live …

Preserving natural genetic diversity and ecological function of wild species is a central goal
in conservation biology. As such, anthropogenic hybridization is considered a threat to wild …

Protists of the genus Cytauxzoon infect a wide variety of wild and domestic felids worldwide.
While the American Cytauxzoon felis has been well described, data on the European …

Domestic cats were derived from the Near Eastern wildcat (Felis lybica), after which they
dispersed with people into Europe. As they did so, it is possible that they interbred with the …

Hybridisation between wild and domestic taxa raises complex questions for conservation.
Genetic advances offer new methods for hybrid identification, yet social and cultural factors …

The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) is the only wild felid living in Greece. Wildcat
populations are declining due to anthropogenic and phenological unfavourable conditions …

Introgressive hybridization can pose a serious threat to endangered species which have an
overlapping distribution such as in the case of two polecat species, Mustela eversmanii and …

Even in the genomics era, the phylogeny of Neotropical small felids comprised in the genus
Leopardus remains contentious. We used whole-genome resequencing data to construct a …