Limited Genetic Diversity Preceded Extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger

The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was the largest carnivorous marsupial when Europeans first reached Australia. Sadly, the last known thylacine died in captivity in 1936. A recent analysis of the genome of the closely related and extant Tasmanian devil demonstrated limited genetic diversity between i...

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Autores principales: Menzies, Brandon R., Renfree, Marilyn B., Heider, Thomas, Mayer, Frieder, Hildebrandt, Thomas B., Pask, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22530022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035433

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22530022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035433

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