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Historically Small Population Size Limits Purging of Deleterious Mutations in a Conservation-Reliant Species, the Kirtlands Warbler
Anna María Calderón, Alexander T. Salis, David P. L. Toews, Zachary A. Szpiech
The paper uses historical DNA to show that a small population's genetic load was not purged after a bottleneck, despite demographic recovery.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.15.725193