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Effects of recent population bottlenecks on reconstructing the demographic history of prairie-chickens.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2007
Johnson Jeff A, Dunn Peter O, Bouzat Juan L
Abstract excerpt
Current methods of DNA sequence analysis attempt to reconstruct historical patterns of population structure and growth from contemporary samples. However, these techniques may be influenced by recent population bottlenecks, which have the potential to eliminate lineages that reveal past changes in demography. One way to examine the performance of these demographic methods is to compare samples from populations...
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