Exceedingly low genetic diversity in snow leopards due to persistently small population size

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 41, October 2025. <br/>SignificanceThrough an international effort, we have generated whole-genome sequencing data for 37 snow leopards, increasing the number of snow leopards sequenced by an order of magnitude. We have used these data to show that snow leopards have the lowest …