A draft de novo genome assembly for the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) reveals evidence for a rapid decline in effective population size beginning in the late pleistocene

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Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Halley, Yvette A ^a   Dowd, Scot E ^b   Decker, Jared E ^c   Seabury, Paul M ^d   Bhattarai, Eric ^a   Johnson, Charles D ^e   Rollins, Dale ^f   Tizard, Ian R ^a   Brightsmith, Donald J ^a   Peterson, Markus J ^e   Taylor, Jeremy F ^c   Seabury, Christopher M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Molecular Research LP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d ElanTech Inc   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARA MACAO; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DE NOVO GENOME ASSEMBLY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; COLINUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOMICS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84897978137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090240     Document Type: Article

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