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Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity

Published:2017-11-17 Issue:6365 Volume:358 Page:951-954
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Murray Gemma G. R.¹^ORCID,Soares André E. R.¹^ORCID,Novak Ben J.¹²,Schaefer Nathan K.³^ORCID,Cahill James A.¹,Baker Allan J.⁴,Demboski John R.⁵^ORCID,Doll Andrew⁵^ORCID,Da Fonseca Rute R.⁶^ORCID,Fulton Tara L.¹⁷^ORCID,Gilbert M. Thomas P.⁶⁸^ORCID,Heintzman Peter D.¹⁹^ORCID,Letts Brandon¹⁰^ORCID,McIntosh George¹¹^ORCID,O’Connell Brendan L.³^ORCID,Peck Mark⁵^ORCID,Pipes Marie-Lorraine¹²^ORCID,Rice Edward S.³^ORCID,Santos Kathryn M.¹¹^ORCID,Sohrweide A. Gregory¹³^ORCID,Vohr Samuel H.³,Corbett-Detig Russell B.³¹⁴^ORCID,Green Richard E.³¹⁴,Shapiro Beth¹¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

2. Revive & Restore, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA.

3. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

4. Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada.

5. Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA.

6. Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.

7. Environment and Climate Change Canada, 9250-49th Street, Edmonton, AB T6B 1K5, Canada.

8. NTNU University Museum, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.

9. Tromsø University Museum, UiT–The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.

10. Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

11. Collections Department, Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY 14607, USA.

12. Marie-Lorraine Pipes, Zooarchaeologist Consultant, Victor, NY 14564, USA.

13. A. Gregory Sohrweide D.D.S., Baldwinsville, NY 13027, USA.

14. University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

Abstract

Genetics of the passenger pigeon The now-extinct passenger pigeon used to be one of the most numerous vertebrates on Earth. Murray et al. examined the genomes of four passenger pigeon samples from different locales within its range. They describe the interplay between passenger pigeon population size, genome structure and recombination, and natural selection. They conclude that a reduction in genetic diversity provided few avenues for the bird to respond to human pressures, which ultimately drove it to extinction. Science , this issue p. 951

Funder

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Revive & Restore

Ciência sem Fronteiras fellowship - CAPES, Brazil

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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