Amid the current biodiversity crisis and the ongoing threat of mass extinctions caused by
modern anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, poaching and habitat destruction …

For many centuries biological materials have been collected to meet human needs—
originally for sustenance and utility but later to satisfy scientific curiosity. Later collections of …

Natural populations currently face a wide variety of threats including climate change, habitat
loss, over-harvesting, invasive species and disease. The most recent report by the …

It has been 50 years since the landmark paper by Frankel highlighted the importance of
genetic variation for continued evolution in the conservation of species. Despite major …

The field of conservation genetics, when properly implemented, is a constant juggling act
integrating molecular genetics, ecology, and demography with applied aspects concerning …

Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates,
conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as …

Decades of globally coordinated work in conservation have failed to slow the loss of
biodiversity. To do better—even if that means nothing more than failing less spectacularly …

The exponential increase in the availability of genomic data, derived from sequencing
thousands of loci or whole genomes, provides exciting new insights into the diversity of life …

In two prophetic papers, Otto Frankel presented the conceptual and moral agenda for the
discipline of conservation genetics. Within the last decade the penetration of genetics into …

The final words spoken by conference organizer Oliver Ryder (Zoological Society of San
Diego, CA, USA) at the 'Genome Resources for the New Century'gathering in San Diego …