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SUBMITTER: Farquharson KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8144597 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Farquharson Katherine A KA Hogg Carolyn J CJ Grueber Catherine E CE
Nature communications 20210524 1
Conservation breeding programs such as zoos play a major role in preventing extinction, but their sustainability may be impeded by neutral and adaptive population genetic change. These changes are difficult to detect for a single species or context, and impact global conservation efforts. We analyse pedigree data from 15 vertebrate species - over 30,000 individuals - to examine offspring survival over generations of captive breeding. Even accounting for inbreeding, we find that the impacts of in ...[more]