Limited genetic diversity preceded extinction of the Tasmanian tiger.

The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was the largest carnivorous marsupial when Europeans first reached Australia. Sadly, the last known thylacine died in captivity in 1936. A recent analysis of the genome of the closely related and extant Tasmanian devil demonstrated limited genetic diversity between i...

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Auteurs principaux: Brandon R Menzies, Marilyn B Renfree, Thomas Heider, Frieder Mayer, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Andrew J Pask
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/a81bf3aeca944cdf8ec0e3b474a5c892
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