The impact of global climate change on genetic diversity within populations and species

SU Pauls, C Nowak, M Bálint… - Molecular ecology, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Genetic diversity provides the basic substrate for evolution, yet few studies assess the
impacts of global climate change (GCC) on intraspecific genetic variation. In this review, we …

Genomics advances the study of inbreeding depression in the wild

M Kardos, HR Taylor, H Ellegren… - Evolutionary …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Inbreeding depression (reduced fitness of individuals with related parents) has long been a
major focus of ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Despite decades of research …

DnaSP 6: DNA sequence polymorphism analysis of large data sets

J Rozas, A Ferrer-Mata… - Molecular biology …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
We present version 6 of the DNA Sequence Polymorphism (DnaSP) software, a new version
of the popular tool for performing exhaustive population genetic analyses on multiple …

Inbreeding and runs of homozygosity: A possible solution to an old problem

I Curik, M Ferenčaković, J Sölkner - Livestock science, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

Inbreeding effects in wild populations

LF Keller, DM Waller - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2002‏ - cell.com
Whether inbreeding affects the demography and persistence of natural populations has
been questioned. However, new pedigree data from field populations and molecular and …

Comparing RADseq and microsatellites for estimating genetic diversity and relatedness—Implications for brown trout conservation

A Lemopoulos, JM Prokkola… - Ecology and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The conservation and management of endangered species requires information on their
genetic diversity, relatedness and population structure. The main genetic markers applied …

Measuring individual inbreeding in the age of genomics: marker-based measures are better than pedigrees

M Kardos, G Luikart, FW Allendorf - Heredity, 2015‏ - nature.com
Inbreeding (mating between relatives) can dramatically reduce the fitness of offspring by
causing parts of the genome to be identical by descent. Thus, measuring individual …

Between a rock and a hard place: evaluating the relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding for conservation and management

S Edmands - Molecular ecology, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
As populations become increasingly fragmented, managers are often faced with the
dilemma that intentional hybridization might save a population from inbreeding depression …

Genomic consequences of intensive inbreeding in an isolated wolf population

M Kardos, M Åkesson, T Fountain, Ø Flagstad… - Nature ecology & …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Inbreeding (mating between relatives) is a major concern for conservation as it decreases
individual fitness and can increase the risk of population extinction. We used whole-genome …

The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation

S Sommer - Frontiers in zoology, 2005‏ - Springer
Genetic studies have typically inferred the effects of human impact by documenting patterns
of genetic differentiation and levels of genetic diversity among potentially isolated …