BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Allele Frequency, Silene Vulgaris, Warren Johnson
14 Oct 2016
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Florida panther, a once abundant big cat that in the mid-1990s appeared to be destined for extinction. Like a great many other vulnerable and endangered species, the panther"s worst enemies are humans with plows, bulldozers, and guns. Yet habitat loss and hunting are not the panther"s only problem. The cat was placed under the protection of the state of florida in 1958 and listed as endangered by the federal government in 1967. Nonetheless, the panther"s population size hovered at less than three dozen from the mid-1989s to the mid- Our discussion of migration, genetic drift, and non-random mating has given us the tools to understand the likely answer. Human activity did two things to the panther. First, it directly reduced the size of the cat"s population. Second, it isolated the cat from other puma populations that it is closely related to and that it once interbred with.
