Neutral genetic diversity as a useful tool for conservation biology

The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics

(2021) João C. Teixeira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent demographic history inferred by high-resolution analysis of linkage disequilibrium

(2020) Enrique Santiago et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

On the estimation of inbreeding depression using different measures of inbreeding from molecular markers

(2020) Armando Caballero et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Reference genome and demographic history of the most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita

(2020) Phillip A. Morin et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression

(2020) Christopher C. Kyriazis et al.   Evolution Letters

Genomic variation predicts adaptive evolutionary responses better than population bottleneck history

(2019) Michael Ørsted et al.   PLoS Genetics

Extended and Continuous Decline in Effective Population Size Results in Low Genomic Diversity in the World’s Rarest Hyena Species, the Brown Hyena

(2018) Michael V Westbury et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic consequences of intensive inbreeding in an isolated wolf population

(2017) Marty Kardos et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Genomic Flatlining in the Endangered Island Fox

(2016) Jacqueline A. Robinson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Understanding Inbreeding Depression, Purging, and Genetic Rescue

(2016) Philip W. Hedrick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Are molecular markers useful predictors of adaptive potential?

(2015) Elizabeth A. Mittell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the consequences of ignoring purging on genetic recommendations for minimum viable population rules

(2015) A García-Dorado   HEREDITY

Allelic diversity for neutral markers retains a higher adaptive potential for quantitative traits than expected heterozygosity

(2015) Ana Vilas et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic rescue of small inbred populations: meta-analysis reveals large and consistent benefits of gene flow

(2015) Richard Frankham   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Allelic Diversity and Its Implications for the Rate of Adaptation

(2013) A. Caballero et al.   GENETICS

Understanding and Predicting the Fitness Decline of Shrunk Populations: Inbreeding, Purging, Mutation, and Standard Selection

(2012) A. Garcia-Dorado   GENETICS

From nature to the laboratory: the impact of founder effects on adaptation

(2012) J. Santos et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How closely does genetic diversity in finite populations conform to predictions of neutral theory? Large deficits in regions of low recombination

(2011) R Frankham   HEREDITY

Cheetah Paradigm Revisited: MHC Diversity in the World's Largest Free-Ranging Population

(2010) Aines Castro-Prieto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Identifying a High Fraction of the Human Genome to be under Selective Constraint Using GERP++

(2010) Eugene V. Davydov et al.   PLoS Computational Biology