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Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in a declining seabird population.

Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2015

Velando Alberto, Barros Álvaro, Moran Paloma

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Loss of genetic diversity is thought to lead to increased risk of extinction in endangered populations due to decreasing fitness of homozygous individuals. Here, we evaluated the presence of inbreeding depression in a long-lived seabird, the European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), after a severe decline in population size by nearly 70%. During three reproductive seasons, 85 breeders were captured and genotyped...

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PMID: 25626726
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13092

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