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ArticleEvolutionary applications2024

The genetic legacy of the first successful reintroduction of a mammal to Britain: Founder events and attempted genetic rescue in Scotland's beaver population.

Helen R Taylor, Jean-Marc Costanzi, Kara L Dicks, Helen V Senn, Sarah Robinson, Gill Dowse, Alex D Ball

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Article in Evolutionary applications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Helen R TaylorField Conservation Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7951-0772
Jean-Marc CostanziWildGenes Laboratory Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh UK.
Kara L DicksWildGenes Laboratory Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-4315
Helen V SennField Conservation Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-8753
Sarah RobinsonScottish Wildlife Trust Edinburgh UK.
Gill DowseScottish Wildlife Trust Edinburgh UK.
Alex D BallWildGenes Laboratory Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1186-2717
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland · GBScottish Wildlife Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conservation translocations often inherently involve a risk of genetic diversity loss, and thus loss of adaptive potential, but this risk is rarely quantified or monitored through time. The reintroduction of beavers to Scotland, via the Scottish Beaver Trial in Knapdale, is an example of a translocation that took place in the absence of genetic data for the founder individuals and resulted in a small and suspected to be genetically depauperate population. In this study we use a high-density SNP panel to assess the genetic impact of that initial translocation and the effect of subsequent reinforcement translocations using animals from a different genetic source to the original founders. We demonstrate that the initial translocation did, indeed, lead to low genetic diversity (

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conservationgenetic rescuemammalreintroductionrelatednesstranslocation

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