Purging of highly deleterious alleles through an extreme bottleneck
O. P. Stuart, R. Cleave, K. Pearce, M. J. Magrath, A. 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.
bioRxiv · Jul 23, 2024Evolutionary Biology