Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation

SP Flanagan, BR Forester, EK Latch… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying and monitoring locally adaptive genetic variation can have direct utility for
conserving species at risk, especially when management may include actions such as …

The value of reference genomes in the conservation of threatened species

P Brandies, E Peel, CJ Hogg, K Belov - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Conservation initiatives are now more crucial than ever—over a million plant and animal
species are at risk of extinction over the coming decades. The genetic management of …

A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zoonomia Project is investigating the genomics of shared and specialized traits
in eutherian mammals. Here we provide genome assemblies for 131 species, of which all …

Reference genomes for conservation

S Paez, RHS Kraus, B Shapiro, MTP Gilbert, ED Jarvis… - Science, 2022 - science.org
As of 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List estimates
that more than 32% of fungal, plant, and animal species are threatened with extinction. This …

A bigger toolbox: biotechnology in biodiversity conservation

RT Corlett - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Conservation biology needs a bigger toolbox to meet unprecedented challenges. Genomics,
fueled by declining sequencing costs, offers novel tools with increased precision for genetic …

Founder relationships and conservation management: empirical kinships reveal the effect on breeding programmes when founders are assumed to be unrelated

CJ Hogg, B Wright, KM Morris, AV Lee… - Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation breeding programmes have become widespread as natural habitats shrink,
and have been historically managed using pedigree data and an assumption that …

[PDF][PDF] Marcadores moleculares na era genômica: metodologias e aplicações

ACT Zolet, C Turchetto, CM Zanella, G Passaia - 2017 - lume.ufrgs.br
A arte da capa desta obra foi desenhada a mão livre por Daniela Quinsani, mestre em
Genética e Biologia Molecular (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia …

Conservation implications of limited genetic diversity and population structure in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)

S Hendricks, B Epstein, B Schönfeld, C Wiench… - Conservation …, 2017 - Springer
Tasmanian devils face a combination of threats to persistence, including devil facial tumor
disease (DFTD), an epidemic transmissible cancer. We used RAD sequencing to investigate …

Conserving adaptive potential: lessons from Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer

PA Hohenlohe, HI McCallum, ME Jones… - Conservation …, 2019 - Springer
Maintenance of adaptive genetic variation has long been a goal of management of natural
populations, but only recently have genomic tools allowed identification of specific loci …

Genotyping‐by‐sequencing for estimating relatedness in nonmodel organisms: Avoiding the trap of precise bias

CRM Attard, LB Beheregaray… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There has been remarkably little attention to using the high resolution provided by
genotyping‐by‐sequencing (ie, RAD seq and similar methods) for assessing relatedness in …