Seedbanks of wild species are instrumental for conservation, but their intraspecific genetic diversity 🧬 is often poorly understood. Our new opinion piece explores... 1/
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#consgen authority Fred Allendorf cries out in despair for American science in the Missoulian newspaper. It’s terrifying to watch this destruction unfold day by day. My heart goes out to my American colleagues and friends. Stay strong and fight.

Orchids have existed for 80 million years, but most of their diversity evolved in just the last 5 million! 🌸

Here's a free poster of the most complete Orchid Tree of Life built by Kew's @latinorchidbot.bsky.social & partners' DNA research 🧬👇

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It is great to have the restoration law - but it needs to incorporate genetic diversity more #consgen 🌏🦤
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Robin Waples's "The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size" is now online in Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
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#consgen #PopGen

Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice -- Summary of our workshop on 🧬
#Ne for practical 🌱🌳🦟🍄🐟🐦🐘 #conservation.

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I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬

🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
#conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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There’s a time lag between an event and its impact on the genetic composition of a population ⏱️🧬

This cool new paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social explains why and how conservation strategies should account for this 🧪🌏

3/ An extinction debt also occurs when gene flow in a metapopulation drops below 1 MPG. This doesn't reflect a deviation from mutation-drift equilibrium, but from migration-drift equilibrium in the metapop. A drop in gene flow reduces the realized inbreeding Ne of the subpopulation.

2/ if allelic richness is smaller than expected from the observed He there is a pending extinction debt
The same principle applies to Tajima's D (haplotypes) or the Site Frequency Spectrum (SNPs).

New paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social on extinction debts and #popgen.
A bottleneck test is also a test for a genetic extinction debt 1/ at mutation-drift equilibrium Ne predicts allelic richness AR and gene diversity He and vice versa

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation.

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Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list
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