Purging of highly deleterious alleles through an extreme bottleneck
Oliver P. Stuart, Rohan Cleave, Kate Pearce, Michael J. L. Magrath, 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.
Molecular Biology and Evolution · Apr 1, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology