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The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago

Reconstructing the genetic history of a population of mouflons descended from a single pair, the team of Denis Réale, professor of the Department of Biological Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal, demonstrated that the animals' genetic diversity increased over time, contrary to what the usual models predict. These results contradict the belief that a population descended from a small number of individuals will exhibit numerous deficiencies and reduced genetic diversity.

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