Conservation genetics

Kardos, Marty

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.047

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Conservation genetics

2021
By Kardos, Marty

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Journal Title:

Current Biology
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Kardos, Marty
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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; NWFSC (Northwest Fisheries Science Center)
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Natural populations currently face a wide variety of threats including climate change, habitat loss, over-harvesting, invasive species and disease. The most recent report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found that ecosystems have declined by approximately 50% relative to historical pristine conditions, and that approximately 25% of species are now threatened by extinction. This human-caused biodiversity crisis calls for using all available scientific tools to understand and reverse the increasing rate of extinction. While extinction is inherently a demographic process, being driven by changes in the population growth rate, the field of genetics plays an important role in the conservation of biodiversity. 'Conservation genetics' is a diverse field that applies genetic principles and methods to characterize and advance the preservation of biodiversity. Here, I first provide a short history of the development of the field and then list examples of the most important ways that genetics contributes to conservation.
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General Agricultural And Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics And Molecular Biology General Agricultural And Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics And Molecular Biology General Agricultural And Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics And Molecular Biology
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Current Biology, 31(19), R1185-R1190
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.047
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0960-9822
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Elsevier BV
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