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The genetic legacy of Lonesome George survives: Giant tortoises with Pinta Island ancestry identified in Galápagos

2013-01-01

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The death of Lonesome George, the last known purebred individual of Chelonoidis abingdoni native to Pinta Island, marked the extinction of one of 10 surviving giant tortoise species from the Galápagos Archipelago. Using a DNA reference dataset including historical C. abingdoni and >1600 living Volcano Wolf tortoise samples, a site on Isabela Island known to harbor hybrid tortoises, we discovered 17 individuals wit...

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Literature Corpus work: 55de80cf-5871-5d32-a6b7-6d797c5a78b4
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.10.014

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