A Draft De Novo Genome Assembly for the Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) Reveals Evidence for a Rapid Decline in Effective Population Size Beginning in the Late Pleistocene

• Yvette A. Halley,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Scot E. Dowd,

  Affiliation Molecular Research LP, Shallowater, Texas, United States of America

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• Jared E. Decker,

  Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Paul M. Seabury,

  Affiliation ElanTech Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America

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• Eric Bhattarai,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Charles D. Johnson,

  Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Core, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Dale Rollins,

  Affiliation Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch, Rotan, Texas, United States of America

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• Ian R. Tizard,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Donald J. Brightsmith,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Markus J. Peterson,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Jeremy F. Taylor,

  Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Christopher M. Seabury

  * E-mail: cseabury@cvm.tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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