A road that a person strolls across with barely a thought proves a deadly barrier for many other creatures and can disrupt the usual traffic of their genes throughout a population.
Most of the recent studies of this effect have focused on vertebrates, note Irene Keller and Carlo R. Largiadèr of the University of Bern in Switzerland.
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