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Conservation genetics as a management tool: The five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Jan 2022
Willi Yvonne, Kristensen Torsten N, Sgrò Carla M, Weeks Andrew R, Ørsted Michael, Hoffmann Ary A
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About 50 y ago, Crow and Kimura [An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory (1970)] and Ohta and Kimura [Genet. Res. 22, 201-204 (1973)] laid the foundations of conservation genetics by predicting the relationship between population size and genetic marker diversity. This work sparked an enormous research effort investigating the importance of population dynamics, in particular small population size, for...
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