Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Purging of highly deleterious alleles through an extreme bottleneck
Oliver P. Stuart, Rohan Cleave, Kate Pearce…·Alexander S. Mikheyev
The paper analyzes genetic diversity in wild and captive-bred populations of the Lord Howe Island stick insect to test if extreme inbreeding following a population bottleneck purges deleterious alleles.
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