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Ancient DNA from shells reveals delayed genomic erosion and rapid immune adaptation in the critically endangered black abalone.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Jun 2026
Wooldridge T Brock, Kapp Joshua D, Ford Sarah M, Seligmann William E, Conwell Holland C, Tzadikario Talia, Oppenheimer Jonas, Anderson Zachary G, Le Moan Alan, Abadía-Cardoso Alicia, Raimondi Peter, Shapiro Beth
Abstract excerpt
Predicting the genetic consequences of population decline is a major problem in conservation genomics. Time lags following demographic bottlenecks can delay genomic erosion and make it difficult to determine a population's current and future risk, especially when prebottleneck genomic baselines are unavailable. Black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) suffered a severe disease bottleneck in the 1980s, resulting in an...
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