Historical Invasion Records Can Be Misleading: Genetic Evidence for Multiple Introductions of Invasive Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Germany

• Mari L. Fischer,

  Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

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• Axel Hochkirch,

  Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

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• Mike Heddergott,

  Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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• Christoph Schulze,

  Affiliation Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

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• Helena E. Anheyer-Behmenburg,

  Affiliation Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Food and Veterinary Institute Braunschweig/Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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• Johannes Lang,

  Affiliation Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung, Gonterskirchen, Germany

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• Frank-Uwe Michler,

  Affiliation Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology, Tharandt, Germany

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• Ulf Hohmann,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology, Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry Rhineland-Palatinate, Trippstadt, Germany

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• Hermann Ansorge,

  Affiliation Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

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• Lothar Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz, Bad Langensalza, Germany

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• Roland Klein,

  Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

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• Alain C. Frantz

  * E-mail: alain.frantz@mnhn.lu

  Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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