Ex situ versus in situ Eurasian lynx populations: implications for successful breeding and genetic rescue

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/23:92387 RIV/60460709:41320/23:92387 RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130508 RIV/62156489:43210/23:43922767

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-022-01494-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-022-01494-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-022-01494-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10592-022-01494-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ex situ versus in situ Eurasian lynx populations: implications for successful breeding and genetic rescue

Original language description

The main aim of ex situ programmes in conservation is to provide a suitable source of individuals for future reintroductions or reinforcement of existing populations. A fundamental prerequisite is creating and maintaining healthy and sustainable captive populations that show high levels of phenotypic and genetic similarity to their wild counterparts. The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is a model of a locally extinct species that has been subject to long-term captive breeding and of past and ongoing reintroduction efforts. To test for genetic suitability of ex situ population, a comparative genetic evaluation including in situ populations was undertaken. The assignment analysis of 97 captive lynx from 45 European zoos, wildlife parks and private breeds was performed using 124 lynx from different wild Eurasian populations belonging to three evolutionary lineages: the Carpathian, the Northern, and the Siberian lynx. The results showed a high proportion of Siberian lynx (51%) in the European captive lynx population. Remaining captive animals were assigned to either the Carpathian (28%), or the Northern lynx lineage (13%). Admixture between lineages was rather low (8%). Notably, no or very low difference in genetic diversity was detected between the wild and captive lynx populations. Our results support the potential of the captive population to provide genetically suitable individuals for genetic rescue programmes. The transfer of genes between isolated populations, including those in captivity, should become an important management tool to preserve genetic variability and prevent inbreeding depression in native and reintroduced populations of this iconic predator.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/LTC20021" target="_blank" >LTC20021: Conservation genetics and genomics of vertebrate species in Central European region</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Conservation Genetics

ISSN

1566-0621

e-ISSN

1572-9737

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

203-217

UT code for WoS article

000904013900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85144880720