Natural history collections as a resource for conservation genomics: Understanding the past to preserve the future

PM Benham, RCK Bowie - Journal of Heredity, 2023 - academic.oup.com
To avoid the worst outcomes of the current biodiversity crisis we need a deep understanding
of population responses to human-induced ecological change. Rapidly expanding access to …

GADMA2: more efficient and flexible demographic inference from genetic data

E Noskova, N Abramov, S Iliutkin, A Sidorin… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Inference of complex demographic histories is a source of information about
events that happened in the past of studied populations. Existing methods for demographic …

The genomic footprint of whaling and isolation in fin whale populations

SF Nigenda-Morales, M Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Twentieth century industrial whaling pushed several species to the brink of extinction, with
fin whales being the most impacted. However, a small, resident population in the Gulf of …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

ME Lauterbur, MIA Cavassim, AL Gladstein, G Gower… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

The meaning of wild: Genetic and adaptive consequences from large-scale releases of domestic mallards

P Lavretsky, JE Mohl, P Söderquist, RHS Kraus… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The translocation of individuals around the world is leading to rising incidences of
anthropogenic hybridization, particularly between domestic and wild congeners. We apply a …

Whole genomes inform genetic rescue strategy for montane red foxes in North America

CB Quinn, S Preckler-Quisquater… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A few iconic examples have proven the value of facilitated gene flow for counteracting
inbreeding depression and staving off extinction; yet, the practice is often not implemented …

Demographic history inference and the polyploid continuum

PD Blischak, M Sajan, MS Barker, RN Gutenkunst - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy is an important generator of evolutionary novelty across diverse groups in the
Tree of Life, including many crops. However, the impact of whole-genome duplication …

Genome analysis traces regional dispersal of rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia

O Alam, RM Gutaker, CC Wu, KA Hicks… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The dispersal of rice (Oryza sativa) following domestication influenced massive social and
cultural changes across South, East, and Southeast (SE) Asia. The history of dispersal …

Doubling down on polyploid discoveries: Global advances in genomics and ecological impacts of polyploidy

MS Barker, Y Jiao, KL Glennon - American Journal of Botany, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
All flowering plants are now recognized as diploidized paleopolyploids (Jiao et al., 2011;
One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative, 2019), and polyploid species comprise …

A radiometric dating revolution and the Quaternary glacial history of the Mediterranean mountains

JL Allard, PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Large glaciers and ice caps formed in the Mediterranean mountains during the cold stages
of the Pleistocene and some small glaciers remain today. Here we review 157 outputs that …