What the Inbred Scandinavian Wolf Population Tells Us about the Nature of Conservation
The genetic aspects of population health are critical, but frequently difficult to assess. Of concern has been the genetic constitution of Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus), which represent an important case in conservation. We examined the incidence of different congenital anomalies for 171 Scandin...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3689695 2023-05-15T15:50:18+02:00 What the Inbred Scandinavian Wolf Population Tells Us about the Nature of Conservation Räikkönen, Jannikke Vucetich, John A. Vucetich, Leah M. Peterson, Rolf O. Nelson, Michael P. 2013-06-21 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689695 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805301 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067218 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689695 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067218 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067218 2013-09-05T01:27:41Z The genetic aspects of population health are critical, but frequently difficult to assess. Of concern has been the genetic constitution of Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus), which represent an important case in conservation. We examined the incidence of different congenital anomalies for 171 Scandinavian wolves, including the immigrant founder female, born during a 32-year period between 1978 and 2010. The incidence of anomalies rose from 13% to 40% throughout the 32-year study period. Our ability to detect this increase was likely facilitated by having considered multiple kinds of anomaly. Many of the found anomalies are likely associated with inbreeding or some form of genetic deterioration. These observations have implications for understanding the conservation needs of Scandinavian wolves. Moreover, these observations and the history of managing Scandinavian wolves focus attention on a broader question, whether conservation is merely about avoiding extinction of remnant populations, or whether conservation also entails maintaining genetic aspects of population health. Text Canis lupus PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS ONE 8 6 e67218 |
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The genetic aspects of population health are critical, but frequently difficult to assess. Of concern has been the genetic constitution of Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus), which represent an important case in conservation. We examined the incidence of different congenital anomalies for 171 Scandinavian wolves, including the immigrant founder female, born during a 32-year period between 1978 and 2010. The incidence of anomalies rose from 13% to 40% throughout the 32-year study period. Our ability to detect this increase was likely facilitated by having considered multiple kinds of anomaly. Many of the found anomalies are likely associated with inbreeding or some form of genetic deterioration. These observations have implications for understanding the conservation needs of Scandinavian wolves. Moreover, these observations and the history of managing Scandinavian wolves focus attention on a broader question, whether conservation is merely about avoiding extinction of remnant populations, or whether conservation also entails maintaining genetic aspects of population health. |
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