BIO220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Coefficient Of Relationship, Semen Quality, Mexican Wolf

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO220H1
• Professor: John Stinchcombe

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Reading article 1: genetic rescue florida panthers. Management strategy to help populations/species with low fitness avoid extinction. Unrelated individuals from other population introduced to low fit population. Article goals: 10 guidelines to evaluate when this is good management option, procedures for genetic rescue, potential negative genetic consequences. Conservation factors important in conservation: inbreeding depression (immediate effect) Effects fitness b/c increase in homozygosity of detrimental alleles from inbreeding: genetic load (long term effect, loss of genetic variation for future adaptation (long-term) Management approaches in conservation genetics: in captive populations avoid inbreeding, maximize effective population. For wild and captive: divide population into groups w/ limited gene flow between them. = more variation than in undivided population: genetic rescue. Increase fitness in population by introduce unrelated individuals. Inbreeding depression: reduction in fitness for progeny from mating btwn relatives compared to mating btwn unrelated individuals. Effects fitness b/c increase in homozygosity of detrimental alleles from.