A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe 20th-century bottlenecks are already showing signs of genetic recovery, challenging ...

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As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

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For centuries, certain royal families married within a tight circle to preserve power and influence. Over time, this practice dramatically increased their inbreeding coefficient — in some cases ...

While genomic selection allows for more rapid genetic improvement, it also appears to be accelerating the level of inbreeding in Holsteins. Some dairy geneticists had predicted this would occur. But ...

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