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Yellowstone National Park is home to the only plains bison population that has continually existed as wildlife, on the same landscape, through the population bottleneck of the late 19th century. Nevertheless, by the early 1900s, only 23 wild bison were known to have survived poaching. Salvation ...
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Impact Factor
3.0
Five Year Impact Factor
2.8
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The journal features primary research on organismal genetics in the following newly categorized subject areas:
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- Genome Evolution
- Genotype to Phenotype
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