The expansion of conservation genetics.
The 'crisis discipline' of conservation biology has voraciously incorporated many technologies to speed up and increase the accuracy of conservation decision-making. Genetic approaches to characterizing endangered species or areas that contain endangered species are prime examples of this. Technical advances in areas such as high-throughput sequencing, microsatellite analysis and non-invasive DNA sampling have led to a much-expanded role for genetics in conservation. Such expansion will allow for more precise conservation decisions to be made and, more importantly, will allow conservation genetics to contribute to area- and landscape-based decision-making processes.
DeSalle
Rob
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American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA. desalle@amnh.org
Amato
George
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D017753:Ecosystem; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical