CANBERRA: Mountain formation in New Guinea five million years ago triggered the spread of diverse rodents across Oceania, Australian research has found.

In a study published in Current Biology recently, researchers from the Australian National University mapped the DNA of more than 150 rodent species from across Australia, New Guinea and Melanesian islands to discover how they are related and how they spread across the Pacific.

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