Linking genomics and fish conservation decision making: a review

TA Bernos, KM Jeffries, NE Mandrak - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2020 - Springer
Despite the promising applications of genome-wide information to conservation, the field of
conservation genomics remains hindered by a research-practice gap. Identifying the …

Hybridization drives genetic erosion in sympatric desert fishes of western North America

TK Chafin, MR Douglas, BT Martin, ME Douglas - Heredity, 2019 - nature.com
Many species have evolved or currently coexist in sympatry due to differential adaptation in
a heterogeneous environment. However, anthropogenic habitat modifications can either …

Defining relictual biodiversity: Conservation units in speckled dace (Leuciscidae: Rhinichthys osculus) of the Greater Death Valley ecosystem

SM Mussmann, MR Douglas, DD Oakey… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The tips in the tree of life serve as foci for conservation and management, yet clear
delimitations are masked by inherent variance at the species–population interface. Analyses …

High sexual display trait diversity without measured genetic divergence in a montane hybrid zone involving young species (Habronattus americanus subgroup …

T Bougie, A Brelsford, M Hedin - Insect Systematics and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genetic introgression, allele exchange across species boundaries, is a commonly
recognized feature of animal evolution. Under such a paradigm, contemporary contact …

Reticulate evolution as a management challenge: Patterns of admixture with phylogenetic distance in endemic fishes of western North America

MR Bangs, MR Douglas, PC Brunner… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Admixture in natural populations is a long‐standing management challenge, with population
genomic approaches offering means for adjudication. We now more clearly understand the …

Taxonomic Uncertainty and the Anomaly Zone: Phylogenomics Disentangle a Rapid Radiation to Resolve Contentious Species (Gila robusta Complex) in the …

TK Chafin, MR Douglas, MR Bangs… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Species are indisputable units for biodiversity conservation, yet their delimitation is fraught
with both conceptual and methodological difficulties. A classic example is the taxonomic …

Comp-D: a program for comprehensive computation of D-statistics and population summaries of reticulated evolution

SM Mussmann, MR Douglas, MR Bangs… - Conservation Genetics …, 2020 - Springer
Computation of Patterson's D-statistic and its five-taxon derivatives are important
phylogenetic methods for the quantification of reticulated evolution, yet are limited in …

Gene flow and species delimitation in fishes of Western North America: Flannelmouth (Catostomus latipinnis) and Bluehead sucker (C. Pantosteus discobolus)

MR Bangs, MR Douglas, TK Chafin… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The delimitation of species boundaries, particularly those obscured by reticulation, is a
critical step in contemporary biodiversity assessment. It is especially relevant for …

Resolving complicated relationships of the Panax bipinnatifidus complex in southwestern China by RAD-seq data

M Zhou, G Yang, G Sun, Z Guo, X Gong… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
The P. binpinnatifidus complex included most of the Panax species distributed in Sino-
Himalaya regions except for P. pseudoginseng, P. stipuleanatus and P. notoginseng …

Genomic pedigree reconstruction identifies predictors of mating and reproductive success in an invasive vertebrate

BA Levine, MR Douglas, AA Yackel Adams… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The persistence of an invasive species is influenced by its reproductive ecology, and a
successful control program must operate on this premise. However, the reproductive …