Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”
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Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”. / Hansson, Bengt; Morales, Hernán E.; van Oosterhout, Cock.
In: Science, Vol. 372, No. 6546, eabh1105, 2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”
AU - Hansson, Bengt
AU - Morales, Hernán E.
AU - van Oosterhout, Cock
N1 - Funding Information: This project received funding from the Swedish Research Council (consolidator grant 621-2016-689 to B.H.), the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant 840519 to H.E.M.), the Earth and Life Systems Alliance (ELSA) of Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK (to C.v.O.). All authors contributed equally to this work. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Scott et al. (Reports, 27 November 2020, p. 1086) bring much-needed attention to species conservation by demonstrating heterozygote superiority among translocated tortoises. However, we believe that their recommended heterozygosity decision rule risks taking conservation genomics backward. We argue that their advice could misguide conservation management aimed at establishing viable populations, and that it can be improved by also assessing the genetic load.
AB - Scott et al. (Reports, 27 November 2020, p. 1086) bring much-needed attention to species conservation by demonstrating heterozygote superiority among translocated tortoises. However, we believe that their recommended heterozygosity decision rule risks taking conservation genomics backward. We argue that their advice could misguide conservation management aimed at establishing viable populations, and that it can be improved by also assessing the genetic load.
U2 - 10.1126/science.abh1105
DO - 10.1126/science.abh1105
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 34083458
AN - SCOPUS:85107592335
VL - 372
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6546
M1 - eabh1105
ER -
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