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Case study of a population bottleneck: lions of the Ngorongoro crater.
"Dominance of Deleterious Alleles Controls the Response to a Population Bottleneck". PLoS Genetics 11 (8): e1105436.
Sundell, T., Heger, M., Kammonen, J. & Onkamo, P. Modelling a Neolithic population bottleneck in Finland: a genetic simulation.
The similarity in linkage disequilibrium observed here suggests that a relative weak population bottleneck might have occurred during dog domestication.
As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a crucial population bottleneck.
They find 11 significant loci, some with signatures of positive selection, and evidence for a population bottleneck beginning around 15,000 years ago.
Although reproducing in this way depletes the genetic diversity of a population, it could help maintain numbers during critical periods, perhaps serving as a "bridging" strategy to get through a population bottleneck.
They, and others it must be said, like the idea that the Toba super-eruption was responsible for a human population bottleneck that seems to have occurred around this time.
The finding of a population bottleneck also applies to humans.
After a population bottleneck, polyandry allows females to select sperm with the best prospects for fitness.
Whereas, the Asian rice that have a positive value may indicate an over-dominant selection or population bottleneck.
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