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A Reference Genome Assembly of American Bison, Bison bison bison.
The Journal of heredity - 29 Mar 2021
Oppenheimer Jonas, Rosen Benjamin D, Heaton Michael P, Vander Ley Brian L, Shafer Wade R, Schuetze Fred T, Stroud Brad, Kuehn Larry A, McClure Jennifer C, Barfield Jennifer P, Blackburn Harvey D, Kalbfleisch Theodore S, Bickhart Derek M, Davenport Kimberly M, Kuhn Kristen L, Green Richard E, Shapiro Beth, Smith Timothy P L
Abstract excerpt
Bison are an icon of the American West and an ecologically, commercially, and culturally important species. Despite numbering in the hundreds of thousands today, conservation concerns remain for the species, including the impact on genetic diversity of a severe bottleneck around the turn of the 20th century and genetic introgression from domestic cattle. Genetic diversity and admixture are best evaluated at...
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