Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesPeer-reviewed
Genetic purging of strongly deleterious mutations underlies black-necked crane's unusual escape from an extinction vortex
Ning Cui, Xuntao Ma, Heqi Wu…·Feng Dong
This study shows black-necked cranes rapidly recovered from a population bottleneck through genetic purging of deleterious mutations, escaping an extinction vortex.