Tag Archives: Heterozygosity

How island foxes are living on the edge

Posted on 23 Nov, 2018 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

Back in 2016, Robinson et al. (2016) published a genomic analyses of the Channel Island foxes and they showed that despite extremely low genome-wide diversity, the island foxes do not seem to be suffering from inbreeding depression. Read the post … Continue reading →

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Polyploidy in the era of GBS

Posted on 23 Mar, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Ploidy, dear reader, is something that I think about literally all the time. It impacts every facet of my research from the field to the bench to the stats used to analyze data sets. It’s been simultaneously the greatest and the … Continue reading →

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