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Historic and contemporary levels of genetic variation in two New Zealand passerines with different histories of decline.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2007
Taylor S S, Jamieson I G, Wallis G P
Abstract excerpt
We compared historic and contemporary genetic variation in two threatened New Zealand birds (saddlebacks and robins) with disparate bottleneck histories. Saddlebacks showed massive loss of genetic variation when extirpated from the mainland, but no significant loss of variation following a severe bottleneck in the 1960s when the last population was reduced from approximately 1000 to 36 birds. Low genetic...
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