[HTML][HTML] Microevolution of medically important mosquitoes–A review

L Suesdek - Acta tropica, 2019 - Elsevier
This review intends to discuss central issues regarding the microevolution of mosquito
(Culicidae) vectors of several pathogens and how this process impacts vector biology …

Next‐generation conservation genetics and biodiversity monitoring

ME Hunter, SM Hoban, MW Bruford… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This special issue of Evolutionary Applications consists of 10 publications investigating the
use of next‐generation tools and techniques in population genetic analyses and biodiversity …

Detecting population declines via monitoring the effective number of breeders (Nb)

G Luikart, T Antao, BK Hand… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating the effective population size and effective number of breeders per year (Nb) can
facilitate early detection of population declines. We used computer simulations to quantify …

Current and forthcoming approaches for benchmarking genetic and genomic diversity

NC García, WD Robinson - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The current attrition of biodiversity extends beyond loss of species and unique populations
to steady loss of a vast genomic diversity that remains largely undescribed. Yet the …

Using bear rub data and spatial capture-recapture models to estimate trend in a brown bear population

KC Kendall, TA Graves, JA Royle, AC Macleod… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Trends in population abundance can be challenging to quantify during range expansion and
contraction, when there is spatial variation in trend, or the conservation area is large. We …

The smell of success: reproductive success related to rub behavior in brown bears

AT Morehouse, AE Loosen, TA Graves, MS Boyce - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Several species of bears are known to rub deliberately against trees and other objects, but
little is known about why bears rub. Patterns in rubbing behavior of male and female brown …

Comparing estimates of census and effective population size in an endangered amphibian

GC Brooks, A Wendt, CA Haas… - Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of conservation has seen a shift in focus from monitoring trends in census
population size to trends in 'effective'population size. Numerous genetic methods exist for …

Demographic expansions and the emergence of host specialization in genetically distinct ecotypes of the tick-transmitted bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum

ML Aardema, NV Bates, QE Archer… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In Europe, genetically distinct ecotypes of the tick-vectored bacterium Anaplasma
phagocytophilum circulate among mammals in three discrete enzootic cycles. To date …

Estimation of effective number of breeders and effective population size in an abundant and heavily exploited marine teleost

A Bertram, J Bell, C Brauer, D Fairclough… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining reliable estimates of the effective number of breeders (N b) and generational
effective population size (N e) for fishery‐important species is challenging because they are …

Systematics, evolution, and genetics of bears

AC Kitchener, E Bellemain, X Ding, A Kopatz… - 2020 - pubs.usgs.gov
Molecular genetics are key to understanding current and historical relationships between
isolated populations, including species' colonizations during glacial–interglacial cycles, to …