Genetic stochasticity due to small population size contributes to population extinction,
especially when population fragmentation disrupts gene flow. Estimates of effective …

Museums and other natural history collections (NHC) worldwide house millions of
specimens. With the advent of molecular genetic approaches these collections have …

Inbreeding (mating between relatives) is a major concern for conservation as it decreases
individual fitness and can increase the risk of population extinction. We used whole-genome …

The grey wolf (C anis lupus) is an iconic large carnivore that has increasingly been
recognized as an apex predator with intrinsic value and a keystone species. However …

The fragmentation of populations is an increasingly important problem in the conservation of
endangered species. Under these conditions, rare migration events may have important …

It has been argued that widespread extinctions of top predators have changed terrestrial
ecosystem structures through mesopredator release, where increased abundances of …

Microsatellite variability is widely used to infer levels of genetic diversity in natural
populations. However, the ascertainment bias caused by typically selecting only the most …

Although the mechanisms controlling gene flow among populations are particularly
important for evolutionary processes, they are still poorly understood, especially in the case …

Abstract In the Fennoscandian countries, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, moose (Alces
alces) populations began to increase rapidly in the 1960s and have since then been among …

When new mutations arise at functional sites they are more likely to impair than improve
fitness. If not removed by purifying selection, such deleterious mutations will generate a …