Maintenance of Genetic Diversity in an Introduced Island Population of Guanacos after Seven Decades and Two Severe Demographic Bottlenecks: Implications for Camelid Conservation

Fifteen guanacos were introduced to Staats Island in the Falklands/Malvinas archipelago from Patagonia in the 1930s. Twenty five years later, the population was culled from 300 to 10–20 individuals, but quickly rebounded to a population of almost 400 animals that today retain the genetic signature o...

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Autores principales: González, Benito A., Orozco-terWengel, Pablo, von Borries, Rainer, Johnson, Warren E., Franklin, William L., Marín, Juan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24663026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091714

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24663026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091714

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