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SUBMITTER: Fraik AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384379 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fraik Alexandra K AK Margres Mark J MJ Epstein Brendan B Barbosa Soraia S Jones Menna M Hendricks Sarah S Schönfeld Barbara B Stahlke Amanda R AR Veillet Anne A Hamede Rodrigo R McCallum Hamish H Lopez-Contreras Elisa E Kallinen Samantha J SJ Hohenlohe Paul A PA Kelley Joanna L JL Storfer Andrew A
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20200603 7
Landscape genomics studies focus on identifying candidate genes under selection via spatial variation in abiotic environmental variables, but rarely by biotic factors (i.e., disease). The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is found only on the environmentally heterogeneous island of Tasmania and is threatened with extinction by a transmissible cancer, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). Devils persist in regions of long-term infection despite epidemiological model predictions of species' exti ...[more]