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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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Autores principales: Xie, Hong-Xin, Liang, Xi-Xi, Chen, Zhi-Qiang, Li, Wei-Ming, Mi, Chun-Rong, Li, Ming, Wu, Zheng-Jun, Zhou, Xu-Ming, Du, Wei-Guo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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