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Six percent loss of genetic variation in wild populations since the industrial revolution
2018-12-07
Abstract excerpt
Genetic variation underpins population fitness and adaptive potential 1,2 . Thus it plays a key role in any species’ probability of long-term persistence, particularly under global climate change. Genetic variation can be lost in a single generation but its replenishment may take hundreds of generations 3 . For that reason safeguarding genetic variation is considered fundamental to maintaining biodiversity, and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3728f589-8a7d-590c-a2d7-13535b5e03ed
- DOI
- 10.1101/488650