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Genomic Footprints of Recovery in the European Bison.
The Journal of heredity - 2 Apr 2020
Druet Tom, Oleński Kamil, Flori Laurence, Bertrand Amandine R, Olech Wanda, Tokarska Malgorzata, Kaminski Stanislaw, Gautier Mathieu
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After extinction in the wild in the beginning of the 20th century, the European bison has been successfully recovered in 2 distinct genetic lines from only 12 and 7 captive founders. We here aimed at characterizing the levels of realized inbreeding in these 2 restored lines to provide empirical insights into the genomic footprints left by population recovery from a small number of founders. To that end, we...
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