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Ancient mitochondrial and modern whole genomes unravel massive genetic diversity loss during near extinction of Alpine ibex.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2022
Robin Mathieu, Ferrari Giada, Akgül Gülfirde, Münger Xenia, von Seth Johanna, Schuenemann Verena J, Dalén Love, Grossen Christine
Abstract excerpt
Population bottlenecks can have dramatic consequences for the health and long-term survival of a species. Understanding of historic population size and standing genetic variation prior to a contraction allows estimating the impact of a bottleneck on the species' genetic diversity. Although historic population sizes can be modelled based on extant genomics, uncertainty is high for the last 10-20 millenia. Hence,...
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