The current biodiversity crisis demands scientifically based management. The generation of
reference genomes is crucial in conservation, but is not enough to capture species diversity …

Although evolutionary biologists have long theorized that variation in DNA repair efficacy
might explain some of the diversity of lifespan and cancer incidence across species, we …

Taylor et al.[1] raise two important points that I should have emphasized more clearly in my
opinion essay [2]. First is the need for monitoring. They note that populations are dynamic …

Beluga whales play a critical role in the subsistence economies and cultural heritage of
Indigenous communities across the Arctic, yet the effects of Indigenous hunting on beluga …

Phylogenomics has the power to uncover complex phylogenetic scenarios across the
genome. In most cases, no single topology is reflected across the entire genome as the …

Genomic resources are valuable to examine historical demographic patterns and their
effects to better inform management and conservation of threatened species. We evaluated …

Biologists have long sought to understand the impacts of deleterious genetic variation on
fitness and population viability. However, our understanding of these effects in the wild is …

A key aspect of assessing the risk of extinction/extirpation for a particular wild species or
population is the status of inbreeding, but the origin of inbreeding and the current mutational …

Abstract The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla, MP) has been extensively exploited
and is now on the brink of extinction, but its population structure, evolutionary history, and …

The reduced genetic diversity and frequent inbreeding associated with small population size
may underpin the accumulation and expression of deleterious mutations (mutation load) in …