獵豹的基因危機

世界上陸地上速度最快的動物正在為繼續生存而賽跑。遠古時期的人口瓶頸導致了基因的統一性,並使該物種極易受到生態變化的影響

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About Stephen J. O'Brien

Stephen J. O’Brien was chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Genomic Diversity until 2012 and is now chief scientific officer at the Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. He has studied the genetics of cheetahs, giant pandas, pumas and whales and of human infection by HIV.

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大眾科學 Magazine Vol 254 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Cheetah in Genetic Peril” in 大眾科學 Magazine Vol. 254 No. 5 (), p. 84
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0586-84
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