This is a repository copy of Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/160967/ Version: Published Version Article: Cucchi, Thomas, Papayiannis, Katerina, Cersoy, Sophie et al. (26 more authors) (2020) Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse. Scientific Reports. 8276. pp. 1-12. ISSN 2045-2322 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64939-9 Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. This licence allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as you credit the authors for the original work. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse Thomas Cucchi1 ✉ , Katerina Papayianni1,2, Sophie Cersoy3, Laetitia Aznar-Cormano4, Antoine Zazzo1, Régis Debruyne5, Rémi Berthon1, Adrian Bălășescu6, Alan Simmons7, François Valla8, Yannis Hamilakis9, Fanis Mavridis10, Marjan Mashkour1, Jamshid Darvish11,24, Roohollah Siahsarvi11, Fereidoun Biglari12, Cameron A. Petrie13, Lloyd Weeks14, Alireza Sardari15, Sepideh Maziar16, Christiane Denys17, David Orton18, Emma Jenkins19, Melinda Zeder20, Jeremy B. Searle21, Greger Larson22, François Bonhomme23, Jean-Christophe Auffray23 & Jean-Denis Vigne1 The house mouse (Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals.