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Late Quaternary loss of genetic diversity in muskox (Ovibos).

BMC evolutionary biology - 6 Oct 2005

MacPhee Ross D E, Tikhonov Alexei N, Mol Dick, Greenwood Alex D

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BACKGROUND: The modern wildherd of the tundra muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is native only to the New World (northern North America and Greenland), and its genetic diversity is notably low. However, like several other megafaunal mammals, muskoxen enjoyed a holarctic distribution during the late Pleistocene. To investigate whether collapse in range and loss of diversity might be correlated, we collected mitochondrial...

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PMID: 16209705
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-49
PMCID: PMC1266356

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