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Hatching failure increases with severity of population bottlenecks in birds.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Jan 2004
Briskie James V, Mackintosh Myles
Abstract excerpt
Severe bottlenecks can reduce genetic diversity and increase inbreeding as individuals are forced to mate with close relatives, but it is unknown at what minimum population size the negative fitness consequences of bottlenecks are expressed. The New Zealand avifauna contains a large number of species that have gone through bottlenecks of varying severity, providing an exceptional opportunity to test this question...
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