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To: <1/1,000,000th%

I have heard the term “keyholing” in reference to genetic diversity when a species is reduced to a few hundred individuals and then comes back. Cheetahs keyholed at some time in the past. There is very little genetic diversity among them.


80 posted on 07/03/2018 2:30:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cheetahs are the best example that I’ve heard of too.


83 posted on 07/04/2018 7:52:11 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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