Successful Biological Invasion despite a Severe Genetic Load
Amro Zayed, Şerban A. Constantin, Laurence Packer · 2007
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Amro Zayed, Serban Constantin and Laurence Packer studied an invading species that thrived despite a heavy genetic load, reporting in PLOS ONE in 2007. Invasions can do real harm to local wildlife and to farming. Oddly, invading groups often show little loss of genetic variety, even when they start from few founders.
The authors take up a case where the genetic burden was severe, yet the invasion still worked. That puzzle tests simple ideas about why some introductions fail and others spread. Their work speaks to anyone trying to predict which new arrivals will take hold. It also shows that genes alone do not settle the outcome.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amro Zayed, Şerban A. Constantin, Laurence Packer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000868