Captive breeding has become an important tool in species conservation programmes.
Current management strategies for ex situ populations are based on theoretical models …

Human impacts through habitat destruction, introduction of invasive species and climate
change are increasing the number of species threatened with extinction. Decreases in …

For more than two decades, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) has been considered a
paradigm of disease vulnerability associated with low genetic diversity, particularly at the …

Understanding drivers of genetic diversity at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is
vitally important for predicting how vertebrate immune defence might respond to future …

Deciphering patterns of genetic variation within a species is essential for understanding
population structure, local adaptation and differences in diversity between populations …

Pathogen‐mediated selection and sexual selection are important drivers of evolution. Both
processes are known to target genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a gene …

The ability of natural populations to adapt to new environmental conditions is crucial for their
survival and partly determined by the standing genetic variation in each population …

South Africa holds a viable population of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus),
with almost 500 individuals divided into (1) an unmanaged population in the Kruger National …

Abstract Background The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is an endangered African canid
threatened by severe habitat fragmentation, human-wildlife conflict, and infectious disease …

John Graham Kerr's zoology was in a pre-molecular age: his 1917 lectures on Amoeba (this
volume) indicate scepticism over the value of chemical investigation of how living organisms …