Genomic data confirms that mutation cannot restore genetic diversity lost through population bottlenecks

Abstract excerpt

Maintaining within-species genetic diversity is a critical goal of biodiversity conservation as it determines a species’ ability to adapt to environmental change. Without human intervention, isolated populations can only recover genetic diversity post-bottleneck through the accumulation of new mutations over evolutionary timescales. Using recent estimates of mutation rates from major genomic datasets across the tr...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Biodiversity
• Climate Change
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Ecosystem
• Extinction, Biological
• Genetic Variation
• Plants

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Literature Corpus work

30072d02-b8c8-5fc9-bc18-8b02ba45b340

DOI

10.32942/x2vw6m