Between a rock and a hard place: evaluating the relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding for conservation and management

By S. Edmands. Molecular Ecology, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Genomics and the future of conservation genetics (2010, background): “Outbreeding depression can result from either chromosomal or genic incompatibilities between hybridizing taxa (intrinsic outbreeding depression) or reduced adaptation to local environmental conditions (extrinsic outbreeding depression”
Conservation genetics in a globally changing environment: present problems, paradoxes and future challenges (2007, background): “Only few well documented negative associations between inbreeding and Wtness have been found in natural animal populations, as for example the study on the Gila topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis by Quattro and Vrijenhoek (1989) and the study on the white-footed mice Peromyscus leucopus noveboracen”
Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species (2014, positive): “In light of current uncertainties, it is necessary to carefully weigh the risk of outbreeding depression against the risk that on-going loss of genetic diversity poses to the long-term persistence of populations (McKay et al., 2005; Edmands, 2007; Sgrò et al., 2011).”
GENETIC ISOLATION BY ENVIRONMENT OR DISTANCE: WHICH PATTERN OF GENE FLOW IS MOST COMMON? (2014, background): “…incompatibilities (interactions between genes) have been explored theoretically (e.g., Antonovics 1968; Edmands and Timmerman 2003) and demonstrated empirically (e.g., De Meester 1993; Edmands 1999; Fenster and Galloway 2000; Marr et al. 2002; Tallmon et al. 2004; Costa e Silva et al. 2012).”
Genetic diversity and landscape genetic structure of otter (Lutra lutra) populations in Europe (2010, background): “Admixture would increase genetic diversity and reduce inbreeding, or, in contrast, results in a loss of local adaptation and increases the risk of outbreeding depression (Edmands 2007), depending on the past demographic history of the admixing populations.”
Assessment of game restocking contributions to anthropogenic hybridization: the case of the Iberian red‐legged partridge (2008, background): “…reduced fertilization success, reduced embryonic survival, lower disease or pathogen resistance, ineffective foraging ability, reduced predation survival and reduced capacity to tolerate physiological stress (e.g. Vamosi, Hatfield & Schluter, 2000; Edmands, 2007; Hutchings & Fraser, 2008).”
Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential (2008, background): “Mixed evidence for outbreeding depression ranging from poor progeny fitness to heterosis in F1 crosses exists, although this may primarily reflect the paucity of these types of studies in the scientific literature (Hufford and Mazer 2003; Edmands 2007).”
Conservation genetics of population bottlenecks: the role of chance, selection, and history (2010, background): “Translocation programs in the Florida panther and the Mexican wolf (Hedrick and Fredrickson 2010), Greater prairie-chickens (Bouzat et al. 2009), bighorn sheep (Hogg et al. 2006), and the Peregrine falcon in southern Scandinavia (Jacobsen et al. 2008), emphasize the potential benefits and pitfalls o”
Restoring species through reintroductions: strategies for source population selection (2015, background): “Outbreeding depression may arise in hybrids because of genetic incompatibilities between populations (Lynch 1991; Neff et al. 2011) and may not be detected until the second generation of interpopulation breeding (Edmands 2007).”
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change and Management Actions for Migrating Fish (2019, background): “…material can dilute favorable alleles, break up co-adapted gene complexes (Lynch, 1991; Rhymer and Simberloff, 1996; Fenster and Galloway, 2000; Edmands, 2007; Verhoeven et al., 2011; Whitlock et al., 2013) and reduce fertility and offspring viability (Gilk et al., 2004; Turner et al., 2012;…”
Utilization and transfer of forest genetic resources: A global review (2014, background): “understudied phenomenon, with evidence limited mostly to interspecific hybrid segregants (Ellstrand, 2003; Edmands, 2007).”
Patterns of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation in the wide elevation range of the alpine plant Arabis alpina (2018, background): “Moreover, in situations with strong local adaptation, gene flow from other populations might first trigger outbreeding depression, before the onset of a noticeable adaptive response (Edmands, 2007; Aitken & Whitlock, 2013).”