Mixing genetically differentiated populations successfully boosts diversity of an endangered carnivore
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Issue Date
2020Subject
TASMANIAN DEVILSWILDLIFE CONSERVATION
REPRODUCTION
INBREEDING
ONCOLOGY
TUMORS
POPULATION GENETICS
TRANSLOCATION
AUSTRALIA
ZOOS
Journal title
Animal ConservationVolume
23Issue
6Begin page
700End page
712
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…We used an introduced population of Tasmanian devils Sarcophilus harrisii descended from two genetically differentiated source populations to illustrate the benefits of genetic admixture for translocation programmes. Devils are endangered due to an infectious cancer causing 80% population declines across their range since disease emergence in 1996…. As part of their conservation management, devils were introduced to Maria Island, Tasmania in an assisted colonization in 2012 with supplementations in 2013 and 2017….Type
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© 2020 The Zoological Society of Londonae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/acv.12589
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