EEB215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conservation Genetics, Evolutionary Taxonomy, Population Genetics
22 Sep 2016
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4 fundamentals of evolution and genetics (part 2) A field that uses knowledge of genetics (together with ecology, molecular biology, population genetics, mathematical modelling and evolutionary taxonomy) to achieve conservation goals. Take a water sample and look for genetic material in it. Now there are data banks available because everyone is trying to sequence species. Provide information for management: estimate pop. size and effective pop. size. Identify individuals from different genetic material: identify pops/pop boundaries, migration patterns and rates. Avoid mating between closely related individuals: used to be a lot of inbreeding in zoos because they would just mate related individuals. Use genetics to figure out relatedness and avoid mating between those individuals. Increase genetic diversity in all captive stocks: studbook keepers. One individual that records all individuals that exist, records genetic material across all of the zoos. Animals or sperm or eggs brought across the world. Any information or history of the individuals: see who is related.
