Purifying Selection in Corvids Is Less Efficient on Islands.
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SUBMITTER: Kutschera VE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6993847 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
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Purifying Selection in Corvids Is Less Efficient on Islands.
Kutschera Verena E VE Poelstra Jelmer W JW Botero-Castro Fidel F Dussex Nicolas N Gemmell Neil J NJ Hunt Gavin R GR Ritchie Michael G MG Rutz Christian C Wiberg R Axel W RAW Wolf Jochen B W JBW
Molecular biology and evolution 20200201 2
Theory predicts that deleterious mutations accumulate more readily in small populations. As a consequence, mutation load is expected to be elevated in species where life-history strategies and geographic or historical contingencies reduce the number of reproducing individuals. Yet, few studies have empirically tested this prediction using genome-wide data in a comparative framework. We collected whole-genome sequencing data for 147 individuals across seven crow species (Corvus spp.). For each sp ...[more]
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