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dc.contributor.authorMurray, Gemma G.R.
dc.contributor.authorSoares, André E.R.
dc.contributor.authorNovak, Ben J.
dc.contributor.authorSchaefer, Nathan K.
dc.contributor.authorCahill, James A.
dc.contributor.authorBaker, Allan J.
dc.contributor.authorDemboski, John R.
dc.contributor.authorDoll, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorDa Fonseca, Rute R.
dc.contributor.authorFulton, Tara L.
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius
dc.contributor.authorHeintzman, Peter D.
dc.contributor.authorLetts, Brandon
dc.contributor.authorMcIntosh, George
dc.contributor.authorO'Connell, Brendan L.
dc.contributor.authorPeck, Mark
dc.contributor.authorPipes, Marie-Lorraine
dc.contributor.authorRice, Edward S.
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Kathryn M.
dc.contributor.authorSohrweide, A. Gregory
dc.contributor.authorVohr, Samuel H.
dc.contributor.authorCorbett-Detig, Russell B.
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Richard E.
dc.contributor.authorShapiro, Beth
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-21T08:37:16Z
dc.date.available2018-03-21T08:37:16Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-17
dc.description.abstractThe extinct passenger pigeon was once the most abundant bird in North America, and possibly the world. Although theory predicts that large populations will be more genetically diverse, passenger pigeon genetic diversity was surprisingly low. To investigate this disconnect, we analyzed 41 mitochondrial and 4 nuclear genomes from passenger pigeons and 2 genomes from band-tailed pigeons, which are passenger pigeons’ closest living relatives. Passenger pigeons’ large population size appears to have allowed for faster adaptive evolution and removal of harmful mutations, driving a huge loss in their neutral genetic diversity. These results demonstrate the effect that selection can have on a vertebrate genome and contradict results that suggested that population instability contributed to this species’s surprisingly rapid extinction.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version available in <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao0960> Science. 2017, 358 (6365), 951-954. 10.1126/science.aao0960. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationMurray, G. G. R., Soares, A. E. R., Novak, B. J., Schaefer, N. K., Cahill, J. A., Baker, A. J. ... Shapiro B. (2017) Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity. Science. 358(6365):951-954en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1530354
dc.identifier.doi10.1126/science.aao0960
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075
dc.identifier.issn1095-9203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/12395
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalScience
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Zoofysiologi og komparativ fysiologi: 483en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Zoophysiology and comparative physiology: 483en_US
dc.titleNatural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversityen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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