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Ancient Demographics Determine the Effectiveness of Genetic Purging in Endangered Lizards
The purging of deleterious alleles has been hypothesized to mitigate inbreeding depression, but its effectiveness in endangered species remains debatable. To understand how deleterious alleles are purged during population contractions, we analyzed genomes of the endangered Chinese crocodile lizard (...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34919713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab359 |