Purifying Selection in Corvids Is Less Efficient on Islands

Theory predicts that deleterious mutations accumulate more readily in small populations. As a consequence, mutation load is expected to be elevated in species where life-history strategies and geographic or historical contingencies reduce the number of reproducing individuals. Yet, few studies have...

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Published in:Mol Biol Evol
Main Authors: Kutschera, Verena E, Poelstra, Jelmer W, Botero-Castro, Fidel, Dussex, Nicolas, Gemmell, Neil J, Hunt, Gavin R, Ritchie, Michael G, Rutz, Christian, Wiberg, R Axel W, Wolf, Jochen B W
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993847/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31633794
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz233
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