You Have Discovered a Small Population of a Unique Vole

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Essay

You have discovered a small population of a unique vole species in a single high-mountain valley.Humans decimated the population outside this valley in the last centuries to use their fur in slippers.A genotypic analysis of the remaining voles shows a high incidence of recessive lethal alleles at three loci.You have been given a grant to begin a captive breeding program with a subset of the population,in hopes that more voles can be produced and released into the wild.Explain your strategies for this project.

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