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Mutational Meltdown

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The Role of Captive Populations in Conservation Biology

There are so many factors to take into account with captive populations. Some species will just then spontaneously asexually produce offspring, which of course is not going to be genetically diversified either. So yeah, you have this huge bottleneck potential there. Yes, it's a vicious cycle of some kind.

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