The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression

JA Robinson, CC Kyriazis, SF Nigenda-Morales… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In cases of severe wildlife population decline, a key question is whether recovery efforts will
be impeded by genetic factors, such as inbreeding depression. Decades of excess mortality …

Population dynamics of caribou shaped by glacial cycles before the last glacial maximum

RS Taylor, M Manseau, CFC Klütsch… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene glacial cycles influenced the diversification of high‐latitude wildlife species
through recurrent periods of range contraction, isolation, divergence, and expansion from …

Molecular Breeding Strategies of Beetroot (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva Alefeld)

FFB Abu-Ellail, KFM Salem, MM Saleh… - Advances in Plant …, 2021 - Springer
Beetroot, table beet, red beet or garden beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva
Alefeld) is a cross-pollinated crop that belongs to the family Chenopodiaceae. It is one of the …

Genome-wide analysis of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) indicates isolation-by-distance across the North Atlantic and potential local adaptation in …

M Autenrieth, K Havenstein, B De Cahsan, J Canitz… - Conservation …, 2024 - Springer
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), a highly mobile cetacean species of the
Northern Hemisphere, inhabits basins that vary broadly in salinity, temperature, and food …

Viral Diversity and Epidemiology in Critically Endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)

X Zhao, C Dai, S Qian, Q Tang, L Li, Y Hao… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Yangtze finless porpoise (YFP)(Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is a
critically endangered freshwater cetacean, with about 1,249 individuals thought to be left in …

A chromosome-level genome assembly of critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus

L Li, X Liang, J Zhang, Q Xu, L Wang, X Gao, X Song… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Ochetobius elongatus, a critically endangered species found in the Yangtze River was the
subject of our study in which we leveraged PacBio and Hi-C data to assemble a …

An Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin genome reveals insights into chromosome evolution and the demography of a vulnerable species

P Zhang, Y Zhao, C Li, M Lin, L Dong, R Zhang, M Liu… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) is a small inshore species
of odontocete cetacean listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Here, we report on the …

Genetic diversity of CHC22 clathrin impacts its function in glucose metabolism

M Fumagalli, SM Camus, Y Diekmann, A Burke… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
CHC22 clathrin plays a key role in intracellular membrane traffic of the insulin-responsive
glucose transporter GLUT4 in humans. We performed population genetic and phylogenetic …

Sirenian genomes illuminate the evolution of fully aquatic species within the mammalian superorder afrotheria

R Tian, Y Zhang, H Kang, F Zhang, Z **… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Sirenians of the superorder Afrotheria were the first mammals to transition from land to water
and are the only herbivorous marine mammals. Here, we generated a chromosome-level …

Conservation genetics and genomics

M Russello, G Amato, R DeSalle, M Knapp - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
For more than thirty years, methods and theories from evolutionary biology, phylogenetics,
population genetics and molecular biology have been used by conservation biologists to …