Correlation between Fitness and Genetic Diversity

By D. H. Reed, R. Frankham. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics

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Realistic levels of inbreeding depression strongly affect extinction risk in wild populations (2006, background): “Further, loss of genetic diversity is related to reduced population fitness (Reed and Frankham, 2003).”
Inbreeding depression in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta): genetic diversity predicts parasitism, immunocompetence, and survivorship (2008, background): “Numerous examples of correlations between heterozygosity and fitness are available in the literature (see the meta-analysis in Reed and Frankham 2003).”
Rapid transgenerational acclimation of a tropical reef fish to climate change (2012, background): “Genetic diversity was reduced at the warmest temperature, owing to differential breeding success among familial lineages, which has a range of implications for future populations, including disease resistance and plasticity to further environmental change”
Molecular biogeography of Europe: Pleistocene cycles and postglacial trends (2007, background): “Conservation implications There is increasing evidence that the population genetic constitution is highly important for the individual fitness [171-173].”
Population genetics of the freshwater mussel, Amblema plicata (Say 1817) (Bivalvia: Unionidae): Evidence of high dispersal and post-glacial colonization (2007, background): “Decreases in within-population variation due to genetic drift increase the probability of extinction (Frankham 2003; Reed and Frankham 2003; Saccheri et al. 1998).”
Extinction risk in fragmented habitats (2004, background): “…be ubiquitous in natural populations (Crnokrak & Roff, 1999; Keller & Waller, 2002; Reed & Frankham, 2003) and can have major effects on the persistence of even relatively large populations (Reed & Bryant, 2000; Brook et al., 2002; Reed & Frankham, 2003; J. J. O’Grady et al., unpublished results).”
Population genetics of Australian white sharks reveals fine-scale spatial structure, transoceanic dispersal events and low effective population sizes (2012, background): “Understanding genetic diversity, population connectivity and trends of abundance is crucial to the development of conservation goals for vulnerable species (Reed & Frankham 2003).”
Genetic Effects of a Persistent Bottleneck on a Natural Population of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata) (2004, background): “Since genetic diversity is a primary component of adaptive evolution, the loss of genetic diversity seriously decreases the long-term survival probability of a population (Avise 1995; Newman and Pilson 1997; Bouzat et al. 1998a; Coltman et al. 1998; Saccheri et al. 1998; Reed and Frankham 2003; but ”
Macroecological patterns of species and genetic diversity in vascular plants of the Mediterranean basin (2010, background): “Although there are no theoretical reasons to expect a correlation between neutral and adaptive gene diversities in populations at equilibrium, a weak but significant correlation is sometimes reported (Merilä & Crnokrak, 2001; Reed & Frankham, 2003) in natural populations.”
Strategies for the conservation of endangered freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera L.): a synthesis of Conservation Genetics and Ecology (2010, background): “…heterozygosity, allelic richness etc.) are often correlated with fitness parameters and the ability to adapt to changes in the environment (e.g. Reed & Frankham, 2003), an evaluation of these genetic parameters on an individual and population level can help to develop sustainable conservation,…”
The fourth paradigm pattern of post‐glacial range expansion of European terrestrial species: the phylogeography of the Marbled White butterfly (Satyrinae, Lepidoptera) (2005, background): “The importance of genetic diversity for the viability of populations is widely accepted (Frankham et al., 2002; Hansson & Westerberg, 2002; Reed & Frankham, 2003; Schmitt & Hewitt, 2004) and many single species examples have been proffered (e.g. Oostermeijer et al., 1995; Newman & Pilson, 1997;…”
Assessing Plant Genetic Diversity by Molecular Tools (2009, methodology): “In order to verify this, Reed and Frankham [5] conducted a meta-analysis of fitness components in three or more populations and in which heterozygosity, and/or heritability, and/or population size were measured.”
The rough edges of the conservation genetics paradigm for plants (2006, neutral): “In a meta-analysis of 34 studies, Reed & Frankham (2003) found a significant correlation between fitness and genetic diversity in molecular markers, but genetic diversity measured in this way could only explain 19% of the total variation in fitness.”
Inbreeding depression in benign and stressful environments (2005, background): “Understanding the causes and consequences of inbreeding depression is fundamental to a wide variety of topics in population biology, including the evolution of mating systems (Charlesworth and Charlesworth, 1987; Uyenoyama et al, 1993), dispersal strategies and social behavior (Thornhill, 1993), art”