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🦎 A handful of lizards brought to Ohio from Italy in the 1950s sparked a decades-long biological mystery.

New research from Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Cincinnati, and The Ohio State University examined how Ohio’s now-famous wall lizards overcame a severe genetic bottleneck and successfully established themselves in a new environment. The findings provide new insight into adaptation, evolution, and population genetics.

Behind the scenes, researchers from the three institutions worked together to process and analyze genomic data using the Ohio Supercomputer Center, demonstrating how Ohio's unique high performance computing solution supports discoveries across the life sciences and enables collaboration across campus boundaries and categories.

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Wall lizards in Ohio reproduced their way out of a genetic bottleneck 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 li...