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Mind the lag: understanding delayed genetic erosion
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In our work on effective population size, we often receive a comment that 'some species persist at low size Ne <500 for many generations & are fine'. But this seems anecdotal. Can anyone highlight species/ isolated populations for 10s of generations at v small size? G-BIKE_COSTAction

📢There's time until March 2024 to submit papers to the Evolutionary Applications Special Issue 'Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring', dedicated to Mike Bruford.
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So great to be back at Pierroton INRAE umr biogeco this week to visit Myriam Heuertz and talk more about effective population size 🧬 in plants 🌿and fungi🍄

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Our paper on monitoring of genetic diversity in Europe & linking to climate change is out in NE&E.
Thanks G-BIKE_COSTAction Peter Pearman Oliver Broennimann Antoine Guisan Mike Bruford The Coalition for Conservation Genetics nature.com/articles/s4155…

❓❓❓Can anyone suggest recent studies involving analyses of relatedness/pedigrees using GBS approaches (RADseq preferred), with no reference genome? 🧬🧬🧬

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❓❓❓Can anyone suggest recent studies involving analyses of relatedness/pedigrees using GBS approaches (RADseq preferred), with no reference genome? 🧬🧬🧬

Thanks Dr. Laura Bertola gesgelbacher.bsky.social 🪶 🧬 for leading this important paper with Anna Brüniche-Olsen Francine Kershaw Isa-Rita Russo and G-BIKE_COSTAction The Coalition for Conservation Genetics and more conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Hi #Popgen #evolution #ecology people: I'm always looking for more Ne/Nc data to verify, scrutinize and add to a database, linking life history traits to Ne/Nc. If you see a paper with Ne and Nc data, pm it to me! thanks.
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Practical application of the linkage disequilibrium method for estimating contemporary effective population size: A review

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