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Evolutionary Applications, 2020 Environmental stress can have a profound effect on inbreeding depression. Quantifying this effect is of particular importance in threatened populations, which are often simultaneously subject to both inbreeding and environmental stress.
Amy L. Springer +2 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Effective population size (Ne) is a useful parameter to evaluate the long‐term viability of populations. While obtaining enough field data from wild populations to estimate Ne directly is challenging, molecular techniques applied to non‐invasive samples provide an appealing alternative.
María‐José Bañuelos, Mario Quevedo
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), one of the largest birds of prey in the world, is threatened with extinction throughout its entire area of occurrence in the Neotropics. While conservation efforts for the wild populations are crucial, it is also important to focus on ex situ conservation actions.
Mylena Kaizer +7 more
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The Growing Pain of Animal Welfare Weaponization: Get the Ghost Out of the Machine
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Managing for positive animal welfare is recognized as a fundamental zoo and aquarium practice. Indeed, many zoo and aquarium associations now have expectations that their members demonstrate achievement of some level of positive welfare for their charges.
David M. Powell, Jason V. Watters
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 The severity of inbreeding depression often varies across environments and recent work suggests that social interactions can aggravate or reduce inbreeding depression.
Tom Ratz, Elise Castel, Per T. Smiseth
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Impact of Inbreeding and Ancestral Inbreeding on Longevity Traits in German Brown Cows
Animals, 2023 A recent study on the population structure of the German Brown population found increasing levels of classical and ancestral inbreeding coefficients.
Anna Wirth, Jürgen Duda, Ottmar Distl
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Museum specimens provide a rich source of historical DNA, enabling insights into phylogenetic relationships and demographic history of the endangered Koklass Pheasant. Our findings uncovered a previously unrecognized population in Guizhou province and highlighted elevated extinction risk in populations from Anhui province and Southern China, informing ...
Zhiyong Jiang +9 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 Background Solanum carolinense (horsenettle) is a highly successful weed with a gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) system. Previous studies reveal that the strength of SI in S. carolinense is a plastic trait, associated with particular S-alleles. The
Keser Lidewij H +2 more
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Effect of recent and ancient inbreeding on production and fertility traits in Canadian Holsteins
BMC Genomics, 2020 Background Phenotypic performances of livestock animals decline with increasing levels of inbreeding, however, the noticeable decline known as inbreeding depression, may not be due only to the total level of inbreeding, but rather could be distinctly ...
Bayode O. Makanjuola +4 more
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Inbreeding depression in a parasitoid wasp with single-locus complementary sex determination. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Inbreeding and inbreeding depression are key processes in small or isolated populations and are therefore central concerns for the management of threatened or (re)introduced organisms.
Chloé Vayssade +5 more
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