Evolutionary BiologyMolecular EcologyPeer-reviewed
The last days of Aporia crataegi (L.) in Britain: evaluating genomic erosion in an extirpated butterfly
Rebecca Whitla, Korneel Hens, James E. Hogan…·Saad Arif
This study compares genomic erosion in an extinct British butterfly and a stable species, finding similar heterozygosity loss despite different population sizes and suggesting inbreeding and deleterious mutations as decline indicators.