Conservation Genetics in the Age of High-Throughput Sequencing

Dear Colleagues,

Genetics has long been an important tool for conservation management. The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies over the past decade has further significantly increased the potential of molecular technologies to support conservation decisions. Population genomic analyses can provide insights into population structure and gene flow in unprecedented detail, while studies of ancient populations from subfossil remains help reconstruct what populations looked like in the past, for example prior to anthropogenic decline. State-of-the-art environmental DNA techniques provide new ways to reconstruct biodiversity of hard-to-monitor ecosystems such as oceans and freshwater lakes. Finally, functional genomic analyses can contribute to analyzing adaptive variation between populations and thereby help to evaluate the risk of inbreeding and outbreeding depression, a key challenge for genetic rescue.

This Special Issue will showcase the latest developments in conservation genetics and genomics research. 

Best wishes,

Dr. Michael Knapp
Guest Editor

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