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TWiEVO 25: Pigeons show the way

  • November 22, 2017
  • Tagged as: drift, evolution, extinction, genome, mitochondrial genome, mutation, natural selection, passenger pigeon, population

Nels and Vincent discuss a genomic analysis of the passenger pigeon, which shows that species with large and stable populations may be at risk of extinction after a sudden environmental change.

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