Bill Woods is joined by Professor Mike Letnic, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences at University of NSW, to discuss a new study using DNA profiling that helps explain how the rabbit plague took over Australia.

Scientists used genetics and historical records to reveal how the species pulled off one of the most infamous biological invasions of all time.

DNA analysis of wild rabbits has uncovered that just a single species introduction is responsible for Australia’s iconic ‘rabbit plague’.

The study, led by the University of Cambridge and CIBIO Institute in Portugal, with collaborators from UNSW Sydney, including Professor Letnic, answers longstanding questions over how rabbits executed a hostile takeover of Australia’s landscape.

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