BIO220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading Genetic Rescue mexican wolves and: Inbreeding Depression, Genetic Load, Effective Population Size
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Genetic rescue: guidelines with examples from mexican wolves and florida panthers. 10 guidelines that can be used to determine when to use genetic rescue. Genetic factors that create a need for genetic rescue. Long term- genetic load and loss of genetic variation. Inbreeding depression: reduction in fitness for progeny from matings between relatives. Genetic load- a negative trait that starts with a small part of population that become a dominant trait and becomes an overall detrimental mutation. Genetic rescue: unrelated individuals from another population are introduced into the population with low fitness in an effort to reduce genetic load.
