Purging of highly deleterious mutations through severe bottlenecks in Alpine Ibex

Grossen, C., Guillaume, F., Keller, L.F. et al. Purging of highly deleterious mutations through severe bottlenecks in Alpine ibex. Nat Commun 11, 1001 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14803-1 Summary by: Charlie Clarke Introduction With bottleneck events becoming more and more common among wild populations due to deforestation, climate change, and over hunting, we can examine “recovered” populations to...

The post Purging of highly deleterious mutations through severe bottlenecks in Alpine Ibex appeared first on Functional Dog Collaborative.