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Introgression and the fate of domesticated genes in a wild mammal population.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2013
Feulner Philine G D, Gratten Jacob, Kijas James W, Visscher Peter M, Pemberton Josephine M, Slate Jon
Abstract excerpt
When domesticated species are not reproductively isolated from their wild relatives, the opportunity arises for artificially selected variants to be re-introduced into the wild. However, the evolutionary consequences of introgression of domesticated genes back into the wild are poorly understood. By combining high-throughput genotyping with 25 years of long-term ecological field data, we describe the occurrence...
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