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Genetic diversity and fitness in black-footed ferrets before and during a bottleneck.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Wisely S M, Buskirk S W, Fleming M A, McDonald D B, Ostrander E A
Abstract excerpt
The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) is an endangered North American carnivore that underwent a well-documented population bottleneck in the mid-1980s. To better understand the effects of a bottleneck on a free-ranging carnivore population, we used 24 microsatellite loci to compare genetic diversity before versus during the bottleneck, and compare the last wild population to two historical populations. We...
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