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#ProcB in @newscientist.com | Illuminating the mystery of thylacine extinction: a role for relaxed selection and gene loss: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Thylacine's genome provides clues about why it went extinct
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before humans and dingoes arrived in Australia
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August 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#ProcB in @newscientist.com | Illuminating the mystery of thylacine extinction: a role for relaxed selection and gene loss: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Excited to share our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProcB ✨
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
We uncover ancestral gene losses in the #thylacine; their timing mirrors its shift to hypercarnivory and increase in body size.
#evolution #geneloss #extinction #conservation
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
We uncover ancestral gene losses in the #thylacine; their timing mirrors its shift to hypercarnivory and increase in body size.
#evolution #geneloss #extinction #conservation
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Excited to share our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProcB ✨
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
We uncover ancestral gene losses in the #thylacine; their timing mirrors its shift to hypercarnivory and increase in body size.
#evolution #geneloss #extinction #conservation
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
We uncover ancestral gene losses in the #thylacine; their timing mirrors its shift to hypercarnivory and increase in body size.
#evolution #geneloss #extinction #conservation