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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Illuminating the mystery of thylacine extinction: a role for relaxed selection and gene loss.

Buddhabhushan Girish Salve, Nagarjun Vijay

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Buddhabhushan Girish SalveComputational Evolutionary Genomics Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal, Bhauri, Madhya Pradesh, India.ORCID 0009-0008-8994-7079
Nagarjun VijayComputational Evolutionary Genomics Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal, Bhauri, Madhya Pradesh, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8703-6991

Funding

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, IndiaScience and Engineering Research Board
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene loss shapes lineage-specific traits but is often overlooked in species survival. In this study, we investigate the role of ancestral gene loss using the extinction icon-thylacine (

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Extinction, BiologicalMarsupialiaSelection, GeneticAnimalsReceptors, OdorantReceptors, Odorantcomparative genomicsconservationextinctiongene losshypercarnivorous dietRELAX selectionthylacine

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PMID40858258
PMCPMC12380493

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