Population genomics for wildlife conservation and management

PA Hohenlohe, WC Funk, OP Rajora - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. Over the past decade, the field of population
genomics has developed across nonmodel organisms, and the results of this research have …

[HTML][HTML] The value of reference genomes in the conservation of threatened species

P Brandies, E Peel, CJ Hogg, K Belov - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Conservation initiatives are now more crucial than ever—over a million plant and animal
species are at risk of extinction over the coming decades. The genetic management of …

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

CX Cunningham, S Comte, H McCallum… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …

The future is now: Amplicon sequencing and sequence capture usher in the conservation genomics era

MH Meek, WA Larson - 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The genomics revolution has initiated a new era of population genetics where genome‐wide
data are frequently used to understand complex patterns of population structure and …

Anthropogenic habitat alteration leads to rapid loss of adaptive variation and restoration potential in wild salmon populations

TQ Thompson, MR Bellinger, SM O'Rourke… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Phenotypic variation is critical for the long-term persistence of species and populations.
Anthropogenic activities have caused substantial shifts and reductions in phenotypic …

Contemporary demographic reconstruction methods are robust to genome assembly quality: a case study in Tasmanian devils

AH Patton, MJ Margres, AR Stahlke… - Molecular biology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing species' demographic histories is a central focus of molecular ecology and
evolution. Recently, an expanding suite of methods leveraging either the sequentially …

A demonstration of conservation genomics for threatened species management

BR Wright, KA Farquharson… - Molecular Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As species extinction rates increase, genomics provides a powerful tool to support intensive
management of threatened species. We use the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) to …

Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer

DG Gallinson, CP Kozakiewicz, RM Rautsaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Coevolution is common and frequently governs host–pathogen interaction outcomes.
Phenotypes underlying these interactions often manifest as the combined products of the …

Restoring faith in conservation action: Maintaining wild genetic diversity through the Tasmanian devil insurance program

KA Farquharson, EA McLennan, Y Cheng, L Alexander… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Conservation breeding programs aim to maintain 90% wild genetic diversity, but rarely
assess functional diversity. Here, we compare both genome-wide and functional diversity (in …

Conserving adaptive potential: lessons from Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer

PA Hohenlohe, HI McCallum, ME Jones… - Conservation …, 2019 - Springer
Maintenance of adaptive genetic variation has long been a goal of management of natural
populations, but only recently have genomic tools allowed identification of specific loci …