Genetics followed the origin of the Australian rabbits
A team of scientists from Portugal, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia, having examined the DNA samples of the Australian rabbits, found that, despite the fact that in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, these animals were imported to Australia several dozens of times, the vast majority of Australian rabbits were descendants of 24 animals, which received from their English relatives in 1859 a richer. The migrant Thomas Austin. The rabbits began to multiply on the way.