Additive genetic variance (VA) reflects the potential for evolutionary shifts and can be low for
some traits or populations. High VA is critical for the conservation of threatened species …

Linking genetic diversity to extinction is a common goal in genomic studies. Recently, a
debate has arisen regarding the importance of genetic variation in conservation as some …

Hybrid incompatibilities occur when interactions between opposite ancestry alleles at
different loci reduce the fitness of hybrids. Most work on incompatibilities has focused on …

The introduction of hippos into the wild in Colombia has been marked by their rapid
population growth and widespread dispersal on the landscape, high financial costs of …

Population genomics is advancing our understanding of evolution, ecology, conservation,
agriculture, forestry, and human health by allowing new and long-standing questions to be …

Conservation genetics and genomics examines the role of evolutionary and genetic
processes in the persistence of organisms, and its research is intended to inform biodiversity …

Monitoring the rate of change in inbreeding and genetic diversity within a population is
important to guide breeding programmes. Such interest stems from the impact of loss in …

Inbreeding may increase the extinction risk of small populations. Yet, studies using modern
genomic tools to investigate inbreeding depression in nature have been limited to single …

Inbreeding depression, the decline in fitness of inbred individuals, is a ubiquitous
phenomenon of great relevance in evolutionary biology and in the fields of animal and plant …

Quantifying the effects of inbreeding is critical to characterizing the genetic architecture of
complex traits. This study highlights through theory and simulations the strengths and …