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Evidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele under inbreeding in a wild population of conservation concern

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dc.contributor.authorTrask, Amanda E.
dc.contributor.authorBignal, Eric M.
dc.contributor.authorMcCracken, Davy I.
dc.contributor.authorMonaghan, Pat
dc.contributor.authorPiertney, Stuart B.
dc.contributor.authorReid, Jane M.
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Biological Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Biological Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Securityen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-15T11:00:17Z
dc.date.available2017-05-15T11:00:17Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.descriptionAcknowledgements We thank everyone who helped with fieldwork, particularly Sue Bignal for her ongoing efforts on Islay, and David Jardine, Mike Peacock and Neil Metcalfe for providing information from Colonsay. We thank all landowners and farmers who allowed access to nest sites. We thank Scottish Natural Heritage, and particularly Rae McKenzie, for their ongoing support, and thank the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for their generous logistical support for AET and JMR. We thank Tom Pennycott and John Mould for undertaking veterinary post-mortems of blind nestlings, and Islay Veterinary Surgery for their help. AET was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and Scottish Natural Heritage, JMR was funded by the Royal Society, and DMcC was funded by the Scottish Government Rural Affairs & Environment Portfolio Strategic Research Programme 2011–2016, Theme 1: Ecosystem Services & Biodiversity. Data accessibility Data on occurrences of blindness in affected families are available in the Supporting Information. All other data associated with this article are available at the Dryad Digital Repository http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.57t89 (Trask et al. 2016).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent13
dc.format.extent557687
dc.identifier61634811
dc.identifier2bc69201-e5d0-4117-a69c-6b0a30e4674e
dc.identifier84961858322
dc.identifier.citationTrask, A E, Bignal, E M, McCracken, D I, Monaghan, P, Piertney, S B & Reid, J M 2016, 'Evidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele under inbreeding in a wild population of conservation concern', Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 879-891. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12503en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1365-2656.12503
dc.identifier.iss4en
dc.identifier.issn0021-8790
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2164/8628
dc.identifier.vol85en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Animal Ecologyen
dc.subjectconservation geneticsen
dc.subjectdisease aetiologyen
dc.subjectextinctionen
dc.subjectgenetic disorderen
dc.subjectheterozygote advantageen
dc.subjectinbreeding depressionen
dc.subjectinheritanceen
dc.subjectmutationen
dc.subjectPeter's anomalyen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)en
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleEvidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele under inbreeding in a wild population of conservation concernen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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