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SUBMITTER: Dierickx EG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7126062 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dierickx Elisa G EG Sin Simon Yung Wa SYW van Veelen H Pieter J HPJ Brooke M de L ML Liu Yang Y Edwards Scott V SV Martin Simon H SH
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200304 1922
Small effective population sizes could expose island species to inbreeding and loss of genetic variation. Here, we investigate factors shaping genetic diversity in the Raso lark, which has been restricted to a single islet for approximately 500 years, with a population size of a few hundred. We assembled a reference genome for the related Eurasian skylark and then assessed diversity and demographic history using RAD-seq data (75 samples from Raso larks and two related mainland species). We first ...[more]