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Next-generation metrics for monitoring genetic erosion within populations of conservation concern

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Date
08/2018
Author
Leroy, G.
Carroll, E. L.
Bruford, M. W.
DeWoody, J. A.
Strand, A.
Waits, L.
Wang, J.
Funder
European Commission
Grant ID
656774
Keywords
Conservation
Monitoring
Genomics
Effective population size
Inbreeding
Adaptation
SNP
QH301 Biology
QL Zoology
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Abstract
Genetic erosion is a major threat to biodiversity because it can reduce fitness and ultimately contribute to the extinction of populations. Here, we explore the use of quantitative metrics to detect and monitor genetic erosion. Monitoring systems should not only characterize the mechanisms and drivers of genetic erosion (inbreeding, genetic drift, demographic instability, population fragmentation, introgressive hybridization, selection) but also its consequences (inbreeding and outbreeding depression, emergence of large effect detrimental alleles, maladaptation and loss of adaptability). Technological advances in genomics now allow the production of data the can be measured by new metrics with improved precision, increased efficiency and the potential to discriminate between neutral diversity (shaped mainly by population size and gene-flow) and functional/adaptive diversity (shaped mainly by selection), allowing the assessment of management-relevant genetic markers. The requirements of such studies in terms of sample size and marker density largely depend on the kind of population monitored, the questions to be answered and the metrics employed. We discuss prospects for the integration of this new information and metrics into conservation monitoring programmes.
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Leroy , G , Carroll , E L , Bruford , M W , DeWoody , J A , Strand , A , Waits , L & Wang , J 2018 , ' Next-generation metrics for monitoring genetic erosion within populations of conservation concern ' , Evolutionary Applications , vol. 11 , no. 7 , pp. 1066-1083 . https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12564
Publication
Evolutionary Applications
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12564
ISSN
1752-4571
Type
Journal item
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© 2017 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. © 2017 Evolutionary Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This work was conducted as a part of the Next-generation Genetic Monitoring Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, sponsored by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Emma Carrol was supported by a Marie Slodowska Curie Fellowship, (Behaviour-Connect) funded by the EU Horizon2020 program. MWB was supported by a Royal Society Wolfson research merit award. LW was supported by the University of Idaho. This research was supported in part by NSF awards 1355106 and 1357386 to AES.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12161

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