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Biodiversity Conservation
Ines Klemme, Lysanne Hendrikx, Roghaieh Ashrafi, Lotta-Riina Sundberg, Ville Raiha, Jorma Piironen, Pekka Hyvarinen, Anssi Karvonen
Summary: The decline of natural plant and animal populations highlights the importance of conservation strategies. Hybridization can introduce gene flow to small populations, but may also bring health risks due to changes in susceptibility to infection. This study found that hybridization between critically endangered Saimaa landlocked salmon and Atlantic salmon led to intermediate survival and resistance to parasites, suggesting a need to consider health effects when using hybridization for conservation purposes.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mohamed S. Abd El-Aty, Mahmoud A. El-Hity, Tharwat M. Abo Sen, Ibrahim A. E. Abd El-Rahaman, Omar M. Ibrahim, Ammar Al-Farga, Amira M. El-Tahan
Summary: This study investigated five populations of five faba bean hybrids in Egypt and found significant variations between generations in all studied attributes. The hybrids of Giza 40 and Giza 843 showed the best performance in terms of branches, pods, and seed quantity.
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Luke M. Noble, John Yuen, Lewis Stevens, Nicolas Moya, Riaad Persaud, Marc Moscatelli, Jacqueline L. Jackson, Gaotian Zhang, Rojin Chitrakar, L. Ryan Baugh, Christian Braendle, Erik C. Andersen, Hannah S. Seidel, Matthew Rockman
Summary: Mating systems have significant impacts on genetic diversity and compatibility. The self-fertilizing Caenorhabditis tropicalis has the lowest genetic diversity and is most affected by outbreeding depression. Laboratory studies show that outbreeding depression in C. tropicalis is mainly caused by Medea-like elements, and frequent selfing may be a strategy to avoid these negative effects.
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Environmental Sciences
Daniel Liesner, Gareth A. Pearson, Inka Bartsch, Shivani Rana, Lars Harms, Sandra Heinrich, Kai Bischof, Gernot Gloeckner, Klaus Valentin
Summary: In this study, the thermal performance and gene expression patterns of inbred and outbred offspring of the North Atlantic kelp Laminaria digitata were assessed under heat stress. Results showed that outbred offspring and temperate selfing had better tolerance and less differential gene expression at high temperatures, while inbred Arctic offspring had poor survival ability under high temperatures. These findings are important for understanding the adaptability of marine forest species to climate change.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
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Ecology
Josselin Clo, Joelle Ronfort, Laurene Gay
Summary: Studying the consequences of hybridization on plant performance in the predominantly selfing species Medicago truncatula showed that hybridization had different effects on fitness proxies within and among populations, with dry mass displaying heterosis and seed production showing outbreeding depression. Family-based analyses revealed that hybrid differentiation was primarily due to dominance and epistasis, with dominance and/or dominant epistatic interactions increasing dry mass but decreasing seed production, and recessive epistatic interactions generally having a positive effect on fitness proxies.
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Plant Sciences
Bojana Stojanova, Zuzana Munzbergova, Hana Pankova
Summary: Research found that for species with small and fragmented populations, early-acting inbreeding and outbreeding depression were not significant, while late-acting inbreeding depression was low and could be counteracted by heterosis. Inbreeding depression and heterosis varied among traits, between years, and with environmental stress.
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Plant Sciences
Tatyana Y. Soto, Juan Diego Rojas-Gutierrez, Christopher G. Oakley
Summary: The study investigates the costs of selfing in the cleistogamous perennial Ruellia humilis Nutt (Acanthaceae) by quantifying inbreeding depression and heterosis. The results indicate moderate inbreeding depression for cumulative fitness in two populations, and outbreeding depression for crosses within a third population. There is weak to modest heterosis in two population combinations, but modest to strong outbreeding depression in the other four combinations.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
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Genetics & Heredity
Roya Adavoudi, Malgorzata Pilot
Summary: Hybridization, the breeding between two distinct taxonomic units, can introduce novel adaptive variation and increase fitness, but also threaten species genetic integrity and survival. Most studies focus on documenting hybridization events and analyzing their causes, while little is known about the consequences of hybridization and its impact on the parental species.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Zachary L. Robinson, Donovan A. Bell, Tashi Dhendup, Gordon Luikart, Andrew R. Whiteley, Marty Kardos
Summary: Augmenting gene flow is crucial for the conservation of isolated populations, but careful evaluation and monitoring are necessary. Common assessment methods may have limitations in detecting genetic rescue effects, highlighting the need for comprehensive monitoring information to improve reliability.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Fabio Pinheiro, Giovanna Seleghin Veiga, Cleber Juliano Neves Chaves, Tami da Costa Cacossi, Clarisse Palma da Silva
Summary: This study on the neotropical orchid Epidendrum fulgens investigated the genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation between insular and continental populations, finding stronger plastid genetic structure compared to nuclear genetic structure. Seed viability showed significant differences between self-pollinated and cross-pollinated plants, with a lower viability in crosses between insular and continental populations, indicating late postzygotic reproductive barriers due to low migration associated with genetic drift. Islands play a significant role in driving populational differentiation and outbreeding depression is important during the early stages of lineage diversification.
PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Ecology
Hilde Schneemann, Asli D. Munzur, Ken A. Thompson, John J. Welch
Summary: When divergent populations interbreed, their alleles are brought together in hybrids. Dominance effects can influence F1 fitness, leading to a decline in hybrid fitness and violation of Haldane's Rule. However, dominance can also result in lucky beneficial effects and strengthen Darwin's Corollary. The effects of dominance on hybrid fitness can be difficult to isolate but can explain environment-dependent heterosis.
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Biology
Tabitha S. Rudin-Bitterli, Jonathan P. Evans, Nicola J. Mitchell
Summary: The study found that implementing targeted gene flow in populations of the Australian crawling frog may have an impact on combating dry environments, but the results depend on the origin of gametes from each sex. North-south crosses could result in low survival rates and high malformation rates, while east-west crosses could lead to hybrid vigor.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Erin Liddell, Paul Sunnucks, Carly N. Cook
Summary: Small, isolated populations face risks of genetic variation loss and inbreeding, which can increase their risk of extinction. Augmenting gene flow can help alleviate these issues. However, many studies do not consider genetic risks in their management recommendations, and those that do often recommend gene-pool mixing over separate management when considering inbreeding depression and outbreeding depression.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Claudio Cropano, Iain Place, Chloe Manzanares, Javier Do Canto, Thomas Lubberstedt, Bruno Studer, Daniel Thorogood
Summary: The paper reviews the research on outcrossing grass species regarding self-incompatibility (SI) and self-compatibility (SC), as well as the current genomic tools and approaches for discovering and characterizing novel SC sources. It also discusses the potential opportunities that SC brings for outcrossing grasses in terms of breeding improvement, such as wide SC introgression and the development of mapping populations for key agronomic traits. Overall, understanding additional SC loci can provide new insights into SI systems, heterosis, and the exploitation of heterosis in genetic improvement programmes for a variety of grass species.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fabienne Van Rossum, Sarah Le Pajolec
Summary: The success of restoring genetically healthy populations through assisted gene flow by plant translocations depends on factors such as translocation design and source population choice. A study on a clonal plant species, Dianthus deltoides, showed that genetic diversity was high in the F1 generation of translocated populations, with low inbreeding levels and genetic mixing between source populations, indicating success in establishing genetically healthy populations.
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Plant Sciences
Asa Lankinen, Henrik G. Smith, Stefan Andersson, Josefin A. Madjidian
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(2016)
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Plant Sciences
Anneli Jonstrup, Mikael Hedren, Stefan Andersson
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(2016)
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Plant Sciences
Fabienne Van Rossum, Inger R. Weidema, Helene Martin, Solenn Le Cadre, Pascal Touzet, Honor C. Prentice, Marianne Philipp
PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
(2016)
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Plant Sciences
Asa Lankinen, Kibrom B. Abreha, Erik Alexandersson, Stefan Andersson, Erik Andreasson
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuan Li, Stefan Andersson
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Plant Sciences
Anneli Jonstrup, Stefan Andersson, Mikael Hedren
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2018)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Kersti Riibak, Triin Reitalu, Riin Tamme, Aveliina Helm, Pille Gerhold, Sergey Znamenskiy, Karin Bengtsson, Ejvind Rosen, Honor C. Prentice, Meelis Paertel
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Plant Sciences
Stefan Andersson
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2019)
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Plant Sciences
Oskar Lofgren, Karin Hall, Barbara Christine Schmid, Honor Clare Prentice
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2020)
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Plant Sciences
Anneli Jonstrup, Mikael Hedren, Tatjana Oja, Tiina Talve, Stefan Andersson
PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
(2020)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Nathalie Pettorelli, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Nathalie Seddon, Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante, Matthew J. Lowton, William J. Sutherland, Heather J. Koldewey, Honor C. Prentice, Jos Barlow
Summary: There is a growing recognition of the fundamental connection between climate change and biodiversity crises, calling for a more integrated global approach. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are seen as a promising pathway to promote synergies between the two agendas, but uncertainties and limited evidence remain regarding their benefits for biodiversity. Policy implications include addressing underfunding, removing negative financial incentives, developing higher integration levels between biodiversity and climate change agendas, agreeing on a monitoring framework, and rethinking environmental legislation to better support biodiversity conservation.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Anders Nielsen, Amy Parachnowitsch, Sara Cousins, Stefan Andersson
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oystein H. Opedal, W. Scott Armbruster, Thomas F. Hansen, Agnes Holstad, Christophe Pelabon, Stefan Andersson, Diane R. Campbell, Christina M. Caruso, Lynda F. Delph, Christopher G. Eckert, Asa Lankinen, Greg M. Walter, Jon Agren, Geir H. Bolstad
Summary: Understanding the causes and limits of population divergence in phenotypic traits is important for evolutionary biology and can predict adaptation to environmental change. This study analyzed a large database of plant populations and found that evolutionary divergence scaled positively with genetic variability within populations. Additionally, vegetative traits showed greater divergence compared to reproductive traits. These results suggest that there is predictability and genetic constraints in trait divergence.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Barbara C. Schmid, Peter Poschlod, Honor C. Prentice
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2017)
Review
Ecology
Johan Ekroos, Anja M. Odman, Georg K. S. Andersson, Klaus Birkhofer, Lina Herbertsson, Bjorn K. Klatt, Ola Olsson, Pal Axel Olsson, Anna S. Persson, Honor C. Prentice, Maj Rundlof, Henrik G. Smith
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2016)