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Aug 2026
The relationship of genetic diversity and inbreeding to extinction risk across over 500 vertebrate diploid genomes
It is found that marine species tend to have lower ROH content, while fossorial species show significantly higher inbreeding levels, which suggests that habitat and foraging strata are much stronger predictors of IUCN status than genetics.
Amanda Gardiner, R. Durbin
· bioRxiv · 0 citations