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Tag Archives: conservation genetics
How do you use genome-wide diversity in conservation?
Measuring how genome-wide diversity matters to threatened species has been a constant endeavor of conservation genetics, and still is in the era of genomics. But what should we do with the fact that it often do not correlate with IUCN Red List categories, a measure of species’ threat status? Continue reading
What should conservation genomics researchers do about The Gap?
People may forget what you exactly said on your paper, but they won’t forget how your paper makes them feel. I don’t know whose adage that is I was modifying exactly, that perfectly sums my experience with a paper by … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation genetics, funding, genomics, interdisciplinary
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Can small populations benefit from genetic rescue?
The core dogma of conservation biology is clear: small populations are bad for species’ persistence. If we observe a population of endangered vertebrates harboring abundant deleterious mutations but without any reduction in fitness, what is happening there? I would like … Continue reading
Inbreeding and the cougar genome
This week, some of my favorite #scicomm games on Twitter are teaming up with March Mammal Madness to reveal this year’s #2020MMM contestants in my favorite “battle of the fittest.” Specifically, today (2/21/2020) at 12:30 pm EST, Dr. Michelle LaRue … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, conservation genetics, genome, genomics, mammals
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Invasion by land, river, and sea
One obvious effect of climate change will be the spread of invasive species and the subsequent ecological, commercial, and health repercussions. Therefore, studies that address the patterns of colonization and possible underlying genetic mechanisms that may lend to being a … Continue reading