Effective population size (N e) is a key parameter in population genetics. It has important
applications in evolutionary biology, conservation genetics and plant and animal breeding …

Captive breeding programs are increasingly being initiated to prevent the imminent
extinction of endangered species and/or populations. But how well can they conserve …

Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

The aim of this note is to describe the program endog (v. 3.0). The program handles
pedigree information to conduct several demographic and genetic analyses including:(a) the …

Selection plans in plant and animal breeding are driven by genetic evaluation. Recent
developments suggest using massive genetic marker information, known as “genomic …

In the local breeds with small population size, one of the most important problems is the
increase of inbreeding coefficient (F). High levels of inbreeding lead to reduced genetic …

We review the available tools for analysing genetic diversity in conservation programmes of
subdivided populations. Ways for establishing conservation priorities have been developed …

The conservation of farm animal resources is important for coping with future breeding
needs and for facilitating the sustainable use of marginal areas. The increasing availability …

Recently different studies have formalized the way in which it is possible to obtain
coancestry coefficients from molecular information (Caballero and Toro 2002; Eding and …

We introduce a simple method to estimate effective population size from increase in
coancestry (Δcjk) for all pairs of individuals j and k in a reference subpopulation. An increase …