New York City is notorious for its large population of rats, but depending on who you ask, there's one American city that has more.

New York rats are primarily Norway (or brown) rats. Their ancestors lived in the wild in northern China and Mongolia, were established in parts of Europe by 1500, and then followed Europeans ...

The Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium combined whole genome shotgun (WGS) methodology with a clone-by-clone approach to produce a high-quality draft covering over 90% of the brown Norway rat ...

When the brown Norway rat 1 and the red jungle fowl 2 joined the ranks of the sequenced in 2004, two unsung heroes of experimental biology finally got their due. Although the projects met with some ...