Conservation genetics targets to conservation genomics

What is the central objective of conservation genetics?

Learn to understand and reduce genetic problems of different populations such as the Florida Panthers  (Felis concolor), the Puerto Rico parrots (Amazona vittata), the Royal Island wolves (Canis lupus), bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), the woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius) and the Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica), among others (Hedrick, 1995; O'Brien, 1994; Frankham et al., 2002). Different genetic factors may be involved the loss of genetic variation and inbreeding depression have received the most attention therefore be treated more carefully. Small populations are more vulnerable because different stochastic factors (demography, environmental and catastrophic) accelerated its decline and lead to two vortices of extinction.  See figure 1

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2. Hedrick P.W. 1995. Gene flow and genetic restoration: the Florida panther as a casestudy. Cons. Biol. 9:996-1007.


3, Frankham R., J.D. Ballou, y D.A. Briscoe. 2002. Introduction to conservation genetics.Cambridge, Reino Unido.