A computer simulation program was used to examine interacting effects of genetic drift,
mutation, immigration from outside populations, directional and balancing selection, and …

The effects of habitat fragmentation on plant population genetic structure and diversity are
relatively well studied. Yet, most of these studies used molecular tools focusing on neutral …

Conservation genetics studies of populations bottlenecks are commonly framed under the
detrimental paradigm of inbreeding depression. This conceptual paradigm presupposes a …

In the context of domestic animal diversity, the term" breed" is conventionally used for all
recognized populations. There are in total about 5000 breeds, a small proportion of which …

Isolation of small populations is expected to reduce fitness through inbreeding and loss of
genetic variation, impeding population growth and compromising population persistence …

In large part, the relevance of genetics to conservation rests on the premise that neutral
marker variation in populations reflects levels of detrimental and adaptive genetic variation …

Hybridization poses a complex problem for biodiversity conservation but there has been little
discussion of strategies and guidelines designed to address it from a management …

Genetic diversity is positively linked to the viability and evolutionary potential of species but
is often compromised in threatened taxa. Genetic rescue by gene flow from a more diverse …

Rates of hybridization and introgression are increasing dramatically worldwide because of
translocations of organisms and habitat modifications by humans. Hybridization has …

Conservation interventions such as assisted migration and genetic alterations are
controversial in part because, through unintended hybridization events, they may imperil …