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Ohio wall lizards overcame genetic bottleneck through rapid population boom, genomes reveal

Ohio wall lizards overcame genetic bottleneck through rapid population boom, genomes reveal Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Non-native wall lizards living in Cincinnati, Ohio, have thrived against the odds thanks to an ability to expand their population more quickly than any inbreeding-amplified harmful genes could weaken their chances for survival, new research suggests. An estimated 10 of these European common wall lizards arrived in southwest Ohio in the 1950s, brought home by a boy who smuggled...