Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Extreme in Every Way: Exceedingly Low Genetic Diversity in Snow Leopards Due to Persistently Small Population Size
Katherine A. Solari, Simon Morgan, Andrey D. Poyarkov…·Dmitri A. Petrov
This study uses whole-genome sequencing of 41 snow leopards to show they have the lowest genetic diversity of any big cat species due to long-term small population size, not recent inbreeding.
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