Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

Summary: The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago, only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island population. We report the first genome-wide analyses of the species, including a high-quality genome assembly for kākā...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicolas Dussex, Tom van der Valk, Hernán E. Morales, Christopher W. Wheat, David Díez-del-Molino, Johanna von Seth, Yasmin Foster, Verena E. Kutschera, Katerina Guschanski, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy, Jonas Korlach, Kerstin Howe, William Chow, Sarah Pelan, Joanna D. Mendes Damas, Harris A. Lewin, Alex R. Hastie, Giulio Formenti, Olivier Fedrigo, Joseph Guhlin, Thomas W.R. Harrop, Marissa F. Le Lec, Peter K. Dearden, Leanne Haggerty, Fergal J. Martin, Vamsi Kodali, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, David Iorns, Michael Knapp, Neil J. Gemmell, Fiona Robertson, Ron Moorhouse, Andrew Digby, Daryl Eason, Deidre Vercoe, Jason Howard, Erich D. Jarvis, Bruce C. Robertson, Love Dalén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:Cell Genomics
Subjects:
kākāpō
mutational load
inbreeding
purging
bottleneck
conservation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X21000021

Internet

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X21000021

Similar Items