What can livestock breeders learn from conservation genetics and vice versa

摘要: The management of livestock breeds and threatened natural population share common challenges, including small effective sizes, high risk inbreeding, the potential benefits costs associated with mixing disparate gene pools. Here we consider what has been learnt about these issues, ways in which knowledge gained from one area might be applied to other, genomics provide new insights. Although there are key differences stemming importance artificial versus selection decreased level environmental heterogeneity experienced by many populations, suspect that information genetic rescue populations could usefully livestock. This includes an increased emphasis on maintaining substantial sizes at expense uniqueness ensuring future adaptability, emphasizing way changes can influence relative fitness deleterious alleles genotypes populations. We also cross-breeding maintenance unique will increasingly important for preservation variation In particular, selected genes identified domestic markers exploring adaptive evolution Genomic technologies two disciplines realizing gains maximizing capacity wildlife, particularly understanding how parts genome may respond differently when exposed processes selection.