ArticleMolecular ecology2025
Conservation Arks: Genomic Erosion and Inbreeding in an Abundant Island Population of Koalas.
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- Runs of Homozygosity Predict Inbreeding Depression Across Taxa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Molecular ecology · 2026Pooled it
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- Evolution and Climate Adaptation in Eurasian Gyrfalcon Populations.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- PGVDA: a pathway-aggregated genetic dosage framework for interpretable disease classification using machine learning.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Balancing High Densities and Conservation Targets to Optimise Koala Management Strategies.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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Abstract
The persistence of many threatened species depends on isolated habitat patches such as conservation parks, fenced reserves, and islands. While these 'conservation arks' provide refuge from many contemporary threats, they can also pose risks of genetic diversity loss and inbreeding depression, further exacerbating extinction risk. A pertinent example is the Kangaroo Island koala population in South Australia that originated from a few translocated founding individuals in the 1920s but now sustains a large population with a low prevalence of infectious disease. We investigated the extent and consequences of founder effects on genomic diversity, inbreeding, and adaptive potential in Kangaroo Island koalas by comparing them with mainland Australian populations using high-coverage whole genomes. Our findings support sharp, recent declines in effective population sizes (N
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