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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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