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A rapid population expansion retains genetic diversity within European rabbits in Australia.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2003
Zenger K R, Richardson B J, Vachot-Griffin A-M
Abstract excerpt
The well documented historical translocations of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) offer an excellent framework to test the genetic effects of reductions in effective population size. It has been proposed that rabbits went through an initial bottleneck at the time of their establishment in Australia, as well as multiple founder events during the rabbit's colonization process. To test these hypotheses,...
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