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Fifty Years of Conservation Genetics: A Personal Perspective.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2025
Allendorf Fred W
Abstract excerpt
I provide my personal account of the application of genetics to conservation. I began graduate school shortly after the first description of genetic variation in natural populations. The use of allozymes uncovered an unexpected amount of genetic variation in a wide variety of species. During this same period, Motoo Kimura proposed the Neutral Theory of Evolution. Understanding the adaptive significance of...
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- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Genetics, Population
- Genetic Variation
- Microsatellite Repeats
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century