Inbreeding is a big problem for the conservation of small wildlife populations, and genetic rescue is a critical management tool used to aid in population recovery and decrease inbreeding.
A new publication in Evolutionary Applications by David Coltman, graduate student Carson Mitchell, and collaborators show how genomic tools outperform traditional pedigree tools to monitor the success of genetic rescue.
Pedigree metrics went up📈 while genomic metrics went down📉 in response to genetic rescue. Authors anticipated that the genomic tools would be more accurate, but not to tell an entirely different story!
This highlights the need for genomic monitoring of at-risk wildlife populations.
Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70216
Coltman Lab 
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