Population Genomics: Wildlife

About this book

Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unprecedented power and accuracy. This pioneering book presents the advances and potential of population genomics in wildlife, outlining key population genomics concepts and questions in wildlife biology, population genomics approaches that are specifically applicable to wildlife, and application of population genomics in wildlife population and evolutionary biology, ecology, adaptation and conservation and management. It is important for students, researchers, and wildlife professionals to understand the growing set of population genomics tools that can address issues from delineation of wildlife populations to assessing their capacity to adapt to environmental change. Population Genomics: Wildlife brings together leading experts in wildlife population genomics to discuss the key areas of the field, as well as challenges, opportunities and future prospects of wildlife population genomics.

Contents

Preface

I. Perspectives, methods and genomic resources
1 Wildlife population genomics perspectives / Paul Hohenlohe (University of Idaho) and Om Rajora (University of New Brunswick)
2 Genomic techniques for non-invasive sampling and low-quality DNA / Kim Andrews, Lisette Waits (University of Idaho)
3 Sampling and experimental design for wildlife genomics / Eric Anderson (NOAA)
4 Wildlife genomes / Jochen Wolf (Uppsala University)

II. Population and evolutionary genetic inferences
5 Structural and functional population genomic diversity and structure / Jonathan Pritchard (University of Chicago)
6 Population genomic inferences for demography and evolution of wildlife / Robin Waples (NOAA), Aaron Shafer (Uppsala University)
7 Landscape population genomics / Sam Cushman (Northern Arizona University)

III. Management perspectives
8 Population genomics in wildlife management / Mike Schwartz (US Forest Service)
9 Wildlife forensics / Rob Ogden (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland)
10 Wildlife populations and climate change / Clint Muhlfeld (US Geological Survey)

IV. Progress and promises of population genomics in wildlife - An overview
A: Speciation, interspecific admixture, phylogenetic relationships, and evolution
11 Bears / Charlotte Lindqvist (Buffalo University), Beth Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz)
12 Canids / Bob Wayne (UCLA)
13 Equids / Ludovic Orlando (University of Copenhagen)
14 Birds / David P. Toews (Cornell University), Hans Ellegren (Uppsala University)
15 Bats / Uma Ramakrishnan (National Center for Biological Sciences, India)
16 Crocodiles / David A. Ray (Mississippi State University)
17 Amphibians / W. Chris Funk (Colorado State University)

B: Demography and phylogeography
18 Turtles / Brad Shaffer (UCLA)
19 Walrus / Aaron Shafer (Trent University)
20 Bears / Goran Spong (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Charlotte Lindqvist (Buffalo University), Beth Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz)
21 Lions / Warren F. Johnson (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA), Agostinho Antures (University of Porto, Potugal)
22 Deer / Emily Latch (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

C: Genomics of small populations
23 Bighorn sheep / David Coltman (University of Alberta)
24 Kiwi / Kristina Ramstad (University of South Carolina, Aiken)

D. Population genomics of wildlife disease
25 White nose disease in bats / Marm Kilpatrick (UC Santa Cruz)
26 Transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils / Paul Hohenlohe (University of Idaho)

E: Genomics of adaptation to changing environments
27 Pika / Michael Russello (UBC Okanagan)
28 Snowshoe hare / Paulo C. Alves (University of Porto)
29 Lizards / Erica B. Rosenblum (UC, Berkeley)

Index

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