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Demographic and conservation genomic assessment of the threatened marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) by Ortego, Joaquín, Muñoz‐Fuentes, Violeta, López‐Luque, Raquel, Ball, Alex D., Ghazali, Muhammad, Abed, Salwan Ali, Salim, Mudhafar A., Green, Andy J.

“…Genetic assessment of species that have experienced dramatic population declines provides critical information that is instrumental for the design of…”
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The genetic legacy of the first successful reintroduction of a mammal to Britain: Founder events and attempted genetic rescue in Scotland's beaver population by Taylor, Helen R., Costanzi, Jean‐Marc, Dicks, Kara L., Senn, Helen V., Robinson, Sarah, Dowse, Gill, Ball, Alex D.

“…Conservation translocations often inherently involve a risk of genetic diversity loss, and thus loss of adaptive potential, but this risk is rarely quantified…”
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Genetic diversity in global populations of the critically endangered addax (Addax nasomaculatus) and its implications for conservation by Dicks, Kara L., Ball, Alex D., Banfield, Lisa, Barrios, Violeta, Boufaroua, Mohamed, Chetoui, Abdelkader, Chuven, Justin, Craig, Mark, Faqeer, Mohammed Yousef Al, Garba, Hamissou Halilou Mallam, Guedara, Hela, Harouna, Abdoulaye, Ivy, Jamie, Najjar, Chawki, Petretto, Marie, Pusey, Ricardo, Rabeil, Thomas, Riordan, Philip, Senn, Helen V., Taghouti, Ezzedine, Wacher, Tim, Woodfine, Tim, Gilbert, Tania

“…Threatened species are frequently patchily distributed across small wild populations, ex situ populations managed with varying levels of intensity and…”
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Conservation management strategy impacts inbreeding and mutation load in scimitar-horned oryx by Humble, Emily, Stoffel, Martin A, Dicks, Kara, Ball, Alex D, Gooley, Rebecca M, Chuven, Justin, Pusey, Ricardo, Remeithi, Mohammed Al, Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, Pukazhenthi, Budhan, Senn, Helen, Ogden, Rob

“…In an age of habitat loss and overexploitation, small populations, both captive and wild, are increasingly facing the effects of isolation and inbreeding…”
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Genetic mapping of the major histocompatibility complex in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) by Ekblom, Robert, Stapley, Jessica, Ball, Alex D., Birkhead, Tim, Burke, Terry, Slate, Jon

“…Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have received much attention in immunology, genetics, and ecology because they are highly polymorphic and…”
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Genome mapping in intensively studied wild vertebrate populations by Slate, Jon, Santure, Anna W, Feulner, Philine G.D, Brown, Emily A, Ball, Alex D, Johnston, Susan E, Gratten, Jake

“…Over the past decade, long-term studies of vertebrate populations have been the focus of many quantitative genetic studies. As a result, we have a clearer…”
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Levels of extra‐pair paternity are associated with parental care in penduline tits (Remizidae) by Ball, Alex D., Dijk, René E., Lloyd, Penn, Pogány, Ákos, Dawson, Deborah A., Dorus, Steve, Bowie, Rauri C. K., Burke, Terry, Székely, Tamás

“…In most passerine birds, individuals attempt to maximize their fitness by providing parental care while also mating outside their pair bond. A sex‐specific…”
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Genetic mapping of the major histocompatibility complex in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) by Ekblom, Robert, Stapley, Jessica, Ball, Alex D, Birkhead, Tim, Burke, Terry, Slate, Jon

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