Agostino Leone
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Agostino Leone
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🇮🇹 #firstgen marine biologist and molecular ecologist at the University of Palermo. Former IFREMER, AZTI-tecnalia and University of Bologna researcher.
#fish #elasmobranchs #genomics #eDNA #molecularecology #evolution #MPAs
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It has been since its first use in 1950, so confusing!
Here is our attempt to clarify and organize this concept in population genetics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apologies for this sort of self-promo but it was born from this exact feeling
Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals - Nature Reviews Genetics
The reduction in individual and mean population fitness induced by novel deleterious genetic variation is known as the genetic load. Bertorelle et al. review the definition of the genetic load and its...
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM