ArticleEvolutionary applications2014
Museum DNA reveals the demographic history of the endangered Seychelles warbler.
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- Kinship and familiarity mitigate costs of social conflict between Seychelles warbler neighbors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Conservation priorities for endangered Indian tigers through a genomic lens.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Delayed dispersal and the costs and benefits of different routes to independent breeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2016Article
- The impact of conservation-driven translocations on blood parasite prevalence in the Seychelles warbler.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Telomere length reveals cumulative individual and transgenerational inbreeding effects in a passerine bird.Molecular ecology · 2016Article
- Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes.Molecular ecology · 2016Review
- No Association between Personality and Candidate Gene Polymorphisms in a Wild Bird Population.PloS one · 2015Article
- Socio-ecological conditions and female infidelity in the Seychelles warbler.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The importance of evolutionary conservation - how understanding evolutionary forces can help guide conservation decisions - is widely recognized. However, the historical demography of many endangered species is unknown, despite the fact that this can have important implications for contemporary ecological processes and for extinction risk. Here, we reconstruct the population history of the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) - an ecological model species. By the 1960s, this species was on the brink of extinction, but its previous history is unknown. We used DNA samples from contemporary and museum specimens spanning 140 years to reconstruct bottleneck history. We found a 25% reduction in genetic diversity between museum and contemporary populations, and strong genetic structure. Simulations indicate that the Seychelles warbler was bottlenecked from a large population, with an ancestral N e of several thousands falling to <50 within the last century. Such a rapid decline, due to anthropogenic factors, has important implications for extinction risk in the Seychelles warbler, and our results will inform conservation practices. Reconstructing the population history of this species also allows us to better understand patterns of genetic diversity, inbreeding and promiscuity in the contemporary populations. Our approaches can be applied across species to test ecological hypotheses and inform conservation.
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