[HTML][HTML] How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

K Theissinger, C Fernandes, G Formenti, I Bista… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

Quantifying temporal genomic erosion in endangered species

D Díez-del-Molino, F Sánchez-Barreiro, I Barnes… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Many species have undergone dramatic population size declines over the past centuries.
Although stochastic genetic processes during and after such declines are thought to elevate …

Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution

KR Bredemeyer, LD Hillier, AJ Harris, GM Hughes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The role of structurally dynamic genomic regions in speciation is poorly understood due to
challenges inherent in diploid genome assembly. Here we reconstructed the evolutionary …

New developments in the field of genomic technologies and their relevance to conservation management

G Segelbacher, M Bosse, P Burger, P Galbusera… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Recent technological advances in the field of genomics offer conservation managers and
practitioners new tools to explore for conservation applications. Many of these tools are well …

Neutral genetic diversity as a useful tool for conservation biology

A García-Dorado, A Caballero - Conservation Genetics, 2021 - Springer
In a recent perspective paper, Teixeira and Huber (2021)(T&H hereafter) argue that “neutral
genetic diversity has only very limited relevance for conservation genetics”. They emphasize …

Purging of deleterious burden in the endangered Iberian lynx

D Kleinman-Ruiz, M Lucena-Perez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Deleterious mutations continuously accumulate in populations, building up a burden that
can threaten their survival, particularly in small populations when inbreeding exposes …

Genetic load has potential in large populations but is realized in small inbred populations

S Mathur, JA DeWoody - Evolutionary Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Populations with higher genetic diversity and larger effective sizes have greater evolutionary
capacity (ie, adaptive potential) to respond to ecological stressors. We are interested in how …

Transposons played a major role in the diversification between the closely related almond and peach genomes: results from the almond genome sequence

T Alioto, KG Alexiou, A Bardil, F Barteri… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We sequenced the genome of the highly heterozygous almond Prunus dulcis cv. Texas
combining short‐and long‐read sequencing. We obtained a genome assembly totaling …

Survival and divergence in a small group: The extraordinary genomic history of the endangered Apennine brown bear stragglers

A Benazzo, E Trucchi, JA Cahill… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
About 100 km east of Rome, in the central Apennine Mountains, a critically endangered
population of∼ 50 brown bears live in complete isolation. Mating outside this population is …

Recombination-aware phylogenomics reveals the structured genomic landscape of hybridizing cat species

G Li, HV Figueiró, E Eizirik… - Molecular biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Current phylogenomic approaches implicitly assume that the predominant phylogenetic
signal within a genome reflects the true evolutionary history of organisms, without assessing …