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On the path to extinction: Inbreeding and admixture in a declining grey wolf population.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2018
Gómez-Sánchez Daniel, Olalde Iñigo, Sastre Natalia, Enseñat Conrad, Carrasco Rafael, Marques-Bonet Tomas, Lalueza-Fox Carles, Leonard Jennifer A, Vilà Carles, Ramírez Oscar
Abstract excerpt
Allee effects reduce the viability of small populations in many different ways, which act synergistically to lead populations towards extinction vortexes. The Sierra Morena wolf population, isolated in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and composed of just one or few packs for decades, represents a good example of how diverse threats act additively in very small populations. We sequenced the genome of one of the...
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