Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential.

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The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variation for traits that influence survival and fecundity, but measuring this variation is difficult, particularly in species of conservation concern. Instead, molecular genetic diversity is often used to infer adaptive...

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