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How to handle the burden of deleterious mutations

Posted on 4 Mar, 2020 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

With the increasingly pressing matter of populations being threatened by fragmentation and isolation, and with progressively more efficient sequencing technologies and analytical tools at hand, conservation genetics is starting to turn the spotlight on the topic of genetic load. It … Continue reading →

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