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Genetic diversity, demographic history and neo-sex chromosomes in the Critically Endangered Raso lark.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 11 Mar 2020
Dierickx Elisa G, Sin Simon Yung Wa, van Veelen H Pieter J, Brooke M de L, Liu Yang, Edwards Scott V, Martin Simon H
Abstract excerpt
Small effective population sizes could expose island species to inbreeding and loss of genetic variation. Here, we investigate factors shaping genetic diversity in the Raso lark, which has been restricted to a single islet for approximately 500 years, with a population size of a few hundred. We assembled a reference genome for the related Eurasian skylark and then assessed diversity and demographic history using...
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