Human activities are driving up to one million species to extinction (Brondizio et al., 2019;Pimm et al., 2014). All threatened species are characterized by small population sizes and a declining population trend or have been through population bottlenecks. Theories suggest that when a population becomes small or has gone through a population bottleneck, the greatly increased random fluctuation of allele
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