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🚨 New paper published in... Nature 😱
I never thought that I would write these words, but here is a Nature-paper that I contributed to. We found global loss in genetic diversity. But conservation strategies may maintain or increase genetic diversity.
Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I never thought that I would write these words, but here is a Nature-paper that I contributed to. We found global loss in genetic diversity. But conservation strategies may maintain or increase genetic diversity.
Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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So fun to see this lab project published! Conservation Genomicists we still have quite a lot of work to do!
Toward a Global Science of Conservation Genomics: Coldspots in Genomic Resources Highlight a Need for Equitable Collaborations and Capacity Building
Advances in genomic sequencing have magnified our understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms relevant to biodiversity conservation. As a result, the field of conservation genomics has gr...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Happy to be here and excited to rekindle some of the magic of the former platform. To start here's a paper (with media release) that we published recently on population genomics of king crab in Alaska. They are highly structured with evidence of local adaptation.
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Genetic Diversity in Alaska Red King Crab May Provide Resilience to Climate Change
New genetic research on the Alaska red king crab reveals previously undiscovered diversity among different regions, suggesting the species is more resilient to climate change and changing ocean condit...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
January 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Silent but dramatic loss of genetic diversity unveiled using museum specimens #consgen
Mullin et al. use WGS from 101 museum specimens of British/Irish moss carder bumblebees from 1894-2019 to reveal a dramatic drop in genetic diversity: ∼24.6% decrease in heterozygosity and a 2.86-fold increase in ROH
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
📷 Gavin Broad
#societyjournal #naturalhistory
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
📷 Gavin Broad
#societyjournal #naturalhistory
September 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Silent but dramatic loss of genetic diversity unveiled using museum specimens #consgen
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 17, 2026 at 5:04 AM
The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
pic by Marc Gardner
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
pic by Marc Gardner
March 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
pic by Marc Gardner
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
pic by Marc Gardner
Conservation genetic research helps wildlife crime investigations 🦊🧬🧪#consgen
February 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Conservation genetic research helps wildlife crime investigations 🦊🧬🧪#consgen
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Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
link.springer.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I’m leaving NOAA on April 28. I never anticipated resigning at any time when I joined the agency 5 yrs ago to help modernize fisheries management and conservation with genomics. Making the work more effective and efficient was the central objective. I loved working at NOAA because… 1/x
I’m leaving NOAA on April 28. I never anticipated resigning at any time when I joined the agency 5 yrs ago to help modernize fisheries management and conservation with genomics. Making the work more effective and efficient was the central objective. I loved working at NOAA because… 1/x
April 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I’m leaving NOAA on April 28. I never anticipated resigning at any time when I joined the agency 5 yrs ago to help modernize fisheries management and conservation with genomics. Making the work more effective and efficient was the central objective. I loved working at NOAA because… 1/x
I’m leaving NOAA on April 28. I never anticipated resigning at any time when I joined the agency 5 yrs ago to help modernize fisheries management and conservation with genomics. Making the work more effective and efficient was the central objective. I loved working at NOAA because… 1/x
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Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics
Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...
link.springer.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Chris I’m adding the #ConservationGenetics tag here so your post appears in the #ConsGen feed :)
Postdoctoral position available on population and landscape genomics to inform host-pathogen co-evolution and conservation of wild 🦌and CWD as part of highly integrative, fun team!: drive.google.com/file/d/1qAyg.... Please RT!
November 17, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Chris I’m adding the #ConservationGenetics tag here so your post appears in the #ConsGen feed :)
Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#popgen #consgen #conservation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#popgen #consgen #conservation
July 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#popgen #consgen #conservation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#popgen #consgen #conservation
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First publication from @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social in
@heredityjournal.bsky.social. Until recently North Atlantic herring stocks were thought to be genetically indistinguishable. This study shows similar gene flow among the killer whales that follow the Icelandic and Norwegian herring stocks.
@heredityjournal.bsky.social. Until recently North Atlantic herring stocks were thought to be genetically indistinguishable. This study shows similar gene flow among the killer whales that follow the Icelandic and Norwegian herring stocks.
🧬 New Paper 🧬
Together with Eve Jourdain, @andrewfoote.bsky.social, @fipsamarra.bsky.social et al. we investigated how ecological & spatio-temporal factors shape gene flow in killer whales from Greenland to Norway. 🧶⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with Eve Jourdain, @andrewfoote.bsky.social, @fipsamarra.bsky.social et al. we investigated how ecological & spatio-temporal factors shape gene flow in killer whales from Greenland to Norway. 🧶⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
April 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Robin Waples' reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne) #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size
This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
another important paper demonstrating that relying purely on individual numbers for conservation might be misleading - information on genomes can aid conservation #consgen 🪶 🦤 🌏 🧪
I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬
🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
#conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes
🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
#conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes
December 18, 2024 at 8:56 AM
another important paper demonstrating that relying purely on individual numbers for conservation might be misleading - information on genomes can aid conservation #consgen 🪶 🦤 🌏 🧪
🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
March 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Our new paper doi.org/10.1098/rspb... on long-term genetic threats to small populations finds that "mutational meltdown" (bad mutations fixing) is less of a problem than "mutational drought" (too few good new mutations) @wmawass.bsky.social @uliseshmc.bsky.social @jeremyjberg.bsky.social 1/5
Extinction vortices are driven more by a shortage of beneficial mutations than by deleterious mutation accumulation
Abstract. Habitat loss contributes to extinction risk in multiple ways. Genetically, small populations can face an ‘extinction vortex’—a positive feedback
doi.org
June 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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We have another publication out! 🎉🎉🎉
“Hybrids along a natural–anthropogenic gradient: improving policy and management across all levels of biodiversity.”
We explore how to deal with hybrids in conservation — scientifically and practically. A thread 🧵
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Hybrids along a natural–anthropogenic gradient: improving policy and management across all levels of biodiversity.”
We explore how to deal with hybrids in conservation — scientifically and practically. A thread 🧵
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hybrids Along a Natural‐Anthropogenic Gradient: Improving Policy and Management Across All Levels of Biodiversity
Hybridization has long been a central topic in evolution and conservation. Recent developments in genomics have increased the ability to detect hybridization, defined here as breeding between species....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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📣 The final chapter of my PhD is now out in @evolletters.bsky.social !! 📣
🦌 Using genomic and fitness data from a long-term study of red deer we investigated the interaction between inbreeding depression and the environment (ID × E)
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
🦌 Using genomic and fitness data from a long-term study of red deer we investigated the interaction between inbreeding depression and the environment (ID × E)
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate
Abstract. Environmental stress can exacerbate inbreeding depression by amplifying differences between inbred and outbred individuals. In wild populations,
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Conservation genomics and assisted introgression is saving the American chestnut from extermination by invasive non-native pathogens. #consgen
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
February 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Conservation genomics and assisted introgression is saving the American chestnut from extermination by invasive non-native pathogens. #consgen
🌊🧬Revolutionizing Biodiversity Monitoring?🧪
Could aquatic #eDNA be a game-changer for tracking biodiversity loss? From detecting invasive species to restoring ecosystems...🌍
Study by Altermatt, F., Couton, M., Carraro, L. et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Could aquatic #eDNA be a game-changer for tracking biodiversity loss? From detecting invasive species to restoring ecosystems...🌍
Study by Altermatt, F., Couton, M., Carraro, L. et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Aquatic eDNA-based technologies offer the potential for universal and standardized biodiversity monitoring. In this Perspective, Altermatt et al. discuss how these technologies can help to achiev...
www.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM