Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 1161-1167Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03176.x
Keywords
allelic diversity; conservation; genetic diversity; genetic drift; inbreeding; translocation
Funding
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
- Landcare Research
- Marsden Fund
- University of Otago
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Preserving genetic health is an important aspect of species conservation. Allelic diversity is particularly important to conserve, as it provides capacity for adaptation and thus enables long-term population viability. Allele retention is difficult to predict beyond one generation for real populations with complex demography and life-history traits, so we developed a computer model to simulate allele retention in small populations. AlleleRetain is an individual-based model implemented in R and can be applied to assess management options for conserving allelic diversity in small populations of animals with overlapping generations. AlleleRetain remedies the limitations of similar existing software, and its source code is freely available for further modification. AlleleRetain and its supporting materials can be downloaded from https://sites.google.com/site/alleleretain/ or CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org).
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