Population Genetics for Animal Conservation (Conservation Biology)

415 Pages·2009·4.19 MB·English

by  Giorgio Bertorelle

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PopulationGeneticsforAnimalConservation
It is widely accepted among conservation biologists that genetics is, more than ever,
an essential and efficient tool for wild and captive population management and reserve
design.However,atruesynergybetweenpopulationgeneticsandconservationbiologyis
lacking. Following the first International Workshop on Population Genetics for Animal
Conservationin2003attheCentrodiEcologiaAlpina,Trento,Italy(recentlyincorporated
into the Edmund Mach Foundation), the scientific committee felt that, given the global
urgencyofanimalconservation,itwasimperativethatdiscussionsattheconferencewere
made accessible to graduate students and wildlife managers. This book integrates ‘the
analyticalmethodsapproach’withthe‘realproblemsapproach’inconservationgenetics.
Eachchapterisanexhaustivereviewofoneareaofexpertise,andaspecialefforthasbeen
madetoexplainthestatisticaltoolsavailablefortheanalysisofmoleculardataasclearlyas
possible. The result is a comprehensive volume of the state of the art in conservation
genetics,illustratingthepowerandutilityofthissynergy.
GIORGIO BERTORELLE currently teaches Biometry, Phylogeny Reconstruction and
ConservationGeneticsattheUniversityofFerrara,Italy.HeisthePresidentandCo-founder
oftheItalianSocietyforEvolutionaryBiology.
MICHAELW.BRUFORD,formerlyHeadoftheConservationGeneticsGroupattheInstitute
ofZoology,London,hasbeenProfessorandResearchGroupLeaderattheCardiffSchoolof
Biosciencessince1999,whereheteachesundergraduateandgraduatecoursesinconserva-
tionbiologyandmolecularecology.
HEIDI C. HAUFFE trainedinEvolutionaryBiologyandestablishedthefirstgeneticslabo-
ratoryattheCentrodiEcologiaAlpina,Trento,Italy,in1997.NowattheEdmundMach
Foundation,herresearchinterestsrangefromrodent-bornevirusestospeciationtocon-
servationgeneticsofalpinemammals.SheisalsocurrentlyaffiliatedtotheUniversityof
York,UK,andtheInstituteofVertebrateBiology,CZ.
ANNAPAOLA RIZZOLI is currently the Coordinator of the Environmental and Natural
Resources Division and Head of the Wildlife Ecology and Epidemiology Group at the
Edmund Mach Foundation. Her main research interests are host–parasite interactions
andemergingzoonoticandvector-bornediseases.
CRISTIANO VERNESI isaresearcherattheEdmundMachFoundation,Trento,Italy.Heis
alsooneofthefoundersandScientificDirectoroftheAssociation‘Biosfera’,anon-profit
associationdevotedtoresearchandteachinginconservationbiology.
ConservationBiology
Thisseriesaimstopresentinternationallysignificantcontributionsfromleadingresearchers
inparticularlyactiveareasofconservationbiology.Itfocusesontopicswherebasictheory
isstrongandwheretherearepressingproblemsforpracticalconservation.Theseries
includesbothauthoredandeditedvolumesandadoptsadirectandaccessiblestyletargeted
atinterestedundergraduates,postgraduates,researchersanduniversityteachers.
1.ConservationinaChangingWorld,editedbyGeorginaMace,AndrewBalmfordand
JoshuaGinsberg0521632706(hardcover),0521634458(paperback)
2.BehaviourandConservation,editedbyMorrisGoslingandWilliamSutherland
0521662303(hardcover),0521665396(paperback)
3.PrioritiesfortheConservationofMammalianDiversity,editedbyAbigailEntwistleand
NigelDunstone0521772796(hardcover),0521775361(paperback)
4.Genetics,DemographyandViabilityofFragmentedPopulations,editedbyAndrew
G.YoungandGeoffreyM.Clarke0521782074(hardcover),0521794218(paperback)
5.CarnivoreConservation,editedbyJohnL.Gittleman,StephanM.Funk,David
MacdonaldandRobertK.Wayne052166232X(hardcover),052166537X(paperback)
6.ConservationofExploitedSpecies,editedbyJohnD.Reynolds,GeorginaM.Mace,Kent
H.Redford,andJohnG.Robinson0521782163(hardcover),0521787335(paperback)
7.ConservingBirdBiodiversity,andeditedbyKenNorrisandDeborahJ.Pain0521783402
(hardcover),0521789494(paperback)
8.ReproductiveScienceandIntegratedConservation,editedbyWilliamV.Holt,Amanda
R.Pickard,JohnC.RodgerandDavidE.Wildt0521812151(hardcover),0521011108
(paperback)
9.PeopleandWildlife,editedbyRosieWoodroffe,SimonThergoodandAlanRabinowitz
0521825059(hardcover),0521532035(paperback)
10.PhylogenyandConservation,editedbyAndrewPurvis,JohnL.GittlemanandThomas
Brooks0521825024(hardcover),0521532000(paperback)
11. LargeHerbivoreEcology,editedbyKjellDanell,RogerBergstrom,PatrickDuncanand
JohnPastor0521830052(hardcover),0521536871(paperback)
12.TopPredatorsinMarineEcosysyems,editedbyIanBoyd,SarahWanlessand
C.J.Camphuysen0521847737(hardcover),052161256X(paperback)
13. CoralReefConservation,editedbyIsbelleCoˆte´andJognReynolds0521855365
(hardcover),0521671450(paperback)
14.ConnectivityConservation,editedbyKevinR.CrooksandM.Sanjayan0521857066
(hardcover),052167381X(paperback)
15. Zoosinthe21stCentury,editedbyAlexandraZimmermann,MatthewHatchwell,Lesley
DicheieandChrisWest9780521853330(hardcover)9780521618588(paperback)
16.SettingConservationTargetsforManagedForestLandscapes,editedbyMarc-Andre´
VillardandBengtGunnarJonsson9780521877091(hardcover)9780521700726
(paperback)
Population Genetics for
Animal Conservation
Editedby
GIORGIOBERTORELLE
DepartmentofBiologyandEvolution,UniversityofFerrara,Italy
MICHAELW.BRUFORD
SchoolofBiosciences,CardiffUniversity,UnitedKingdom
HEIDIC.HAUFFE
EdmundMachFoundation,Trento,Italy
ANNAPAOLARIZZOLI
EdmundMachFoundation,Trento,Italy
CRISTIANOVERNESI
EdmundMachFoundation,Trento,Italy
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Conservation biology will succeed to the degree that its theoreticians,
practitioners, and users acknowledge the larger context in which they
exist,andtothedegreethattheyrespectoneanother’sroles,contributions
andproblems.
MichaelE.Soule´ (1986)

Contents
Listofcontributors [ix]
Foreword [xiii]
Acknowledgements [xiv]
1 Introduction [1]
HEIDI C. HAUFFE AND VALERIO SBORDONI
Statisticalapproaches,dataanalysisandinference [23]
2 Statisticalmethodsforidentifyinghybridsandgroups [25]
ERIC C. ANDERSON
3 HowtouseMIGRATE orwhyareMarkovchainMonteCarloprograms
difficulttouse? [42]
PETER BEERLI
4 Nestedcladephylogeographicanalysisforconservationgenetics [80]
JENNIFER E. BUHAY, KEITH A. CRANDALL AND DAVID POSADA
5 Acomparisonofmethodsforconstructingevolutionarynetworksfrom
intraspecificDNAsequences [104]
PATRICK MARDULYN, INSA CASSENS AND MICHEL C. MILINKOVITCH
Molecularapproachesandapplications [121]
6 Challengesinassessingadaptivegeneticdiversity:overviewofmethods
andempiricalillustrations [123]
AURE´LIE BONIN AND LOUIS BERNATCHEZ
7 Monitoringanddetectingtranslocationsusinggeneticdata [148]
GIORGIO BERTORELLE, CHIARA PAPETTI, HEIDI C. HAUFFE AND
LUIGI BOITANI
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8 Non-invasivegeneticanalysisinconservation [167]
BENOIˆT GOOSSENS AND MICHAEL W. BRUFORD
9 TheroleofancientDNAinconservationbiology [202]
JON BEADELL, YVONNE CHAN AND ROBERT FLEISCHER
Fromgeneticdatatopracticalmanagement:issuesandcasestudies [225]
10 Future-proofinggeneticunitsforconservation:time’supfor
subspeciesasthedebategetsoutofneutral! [227]
MICHAEL W. BRUFORD
11 Geneticdiversityandfitness-relatedtraitsinendangered
salmonids [241]
KATRIINA TIIRA AND CRAIG R. PRIMMER
12 Geneticsandconservationonislands:theGala´pagosgianttortoise
asacasestudy [269]
CLAUDIO CIOFI, ADALGISA CACCONE, LUCIANO B. BEHEREGARAY,
MICHEL C. MILINKOVITCH, MICHAEL RUSSELLO AND JEFFREY R.
POWELL
13 Evolutionofpopulationgeneticstructureinmarinemammal
species [294]
A. RUS HOELZEL
Futuredirectionsinconservationgenetics [319]
14 Recentdevelopmentsinmoleculartoolsforconservation [321]
CRISTIANO VERNESI AND MICHAEL W. BRUFORD
15 Theoreticaloutlook [345]
MARK BEAUMONT
Softwareindex [374]
Speciesindex(commonname) [376]
Speciesindex(Latinname) [379]
Subjectindex [382]
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