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Demographic inference from whole-genome and RAD sequencing data suggests alternating human impacts on goose populations since the last ice age.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2017
Pujolar J M, Dalén L, Hansen M M, Madsen J
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We investigated how population changes and fluctuations in the pink-footed goose might have been affected by climatic and anthropogenic factors. First, genomic data confirmed the existence of two separate populations: western (Iceland) and eastern (Svalbard/Denmark). Second, demographic inference suggests that the species survived the last glacial period as a single ancestral population with a low population size...
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