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| Hedrick, P.W. | |
| Bottleneck(s) of metapopulation in cheetahs | |
| 1996 Conservation Biology (10): 897-899 | |
The "cheetah paradigm" proposes that a low level of genetic variation has resulted in a high probability of extinction for this species, a connection that has recently been questioned. I do not wish to address this controversy further but to suggest that the extent of genetic variation observed in cheetahs, including the recent minisatellite and microsatellite data, is consistent with the equilibrium heterozygosity expected from the small effective population size that may occur because of metapopulation dynamics, that is, because of extinction and recolonization of habitat patches. |
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