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1 Conservation Genetics The basis for an evolutionary conservation Outline Introduction to conservation genetics Genetic diversity and measurement Genetic consequences of small population size and extinction. Defining conservation and management units based on population genetics. 1

2 Biodiversity IUCN (Int. Union for Conservation of Nature) 3 fundamental levels: Ecosystem Species Genetic Genes Population genetics: Why bother? Key contribution: focus on evolutionary potential of populations and species Conservation Genetics (Frankham et al. 2002) Conservation genetics is the application of genetics to preserve species as dynamic entities capable of coping with environmental change. Conservation genetics has been driven by what many consider to be a global environmental crisis: the sixth extinction Very young science: First journal in 2000 First textbook in

3 Practices in Conservation genetics Genetic management of small populations. Identifying and defining units of conservation within and between species. Use of genetic information for wildlife forensics. Evolutionary genetics Taxonomic uncertainties Understanding species biology Forensics Conservation Genetics Small populations Introgression Population structure & fragmentation Outbreeding Inbreeding Loss of genetic diversity Mutational accumulation Reproductive fitness Genetic management Identify mgmt units Wild Captive Extinction Adaptation to captivity Reintroduction 3

4 Evolutionary Change Genetic drift Mutation Most mutations are recessive. Here the mutation is dominant Migration/gene flow Natural selection Genetic Diversity Required for populations to adapt to environmental change (long term). Assessed using molecular or quantitative methods. Large, outbreeding populations generally have a lot of diversity Small populations risk losing diversity 4

5 10/14/09 Why is genetic variation important? variation global warming survival EXTINCTION!! no variation NJ tree for COI DNA barcodes of the six species of Perichares reared in the conservation area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Burns J M et al. PNAS 2008;105:

6 Many different markers: mtdna sequences *** chloroplast DNA sequences * nuclear DNA sequences * Microsatellites *** Minisatellites * AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphisms) * RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) * Marker chosen depends on the question to be answered. Measures of Genetic Diversity Terms Locus = portion of DNA (plural = loci) Allele = form that a locus can take Subjective depending on resolution of measurement Nucleotide state difference (sequencing) AGGCGTTCGCTTATGATAA AGGCGTACGCTTATGATAA Length difference (microsatellite) AGGCGTTCACACACACACGCTTATGATAA AGGCGTTCACACACACACACGCTTATGATAA 6

7 DNA sequences Co-dominant Ultimate level of resolution Neutral or functional variation Population-level to deep phylogeny Origins of sequence data Nuclear DNA (nucdna) Chromosomes Diploid Sex chromosomes Haploid genomes Mitochondrial DNA (mtdna) Animals (relatively fast mutation rates) Plants (relatively slow mutation rates) Chloroplast DNA Maternally inherited in angiosperms Paternally inherited in most gymnosperms 7

8 Nature of mutation 4 nucleotides A & G = purines [R] T & C = pyrimidines [Y] In dsdna, R always bonds with Y A bonds with T, G bonds with C in double-stranded DNA R for R or Y for Y = transition [ts] R for Y or Y for R = transversion [tv] Ts much more common than tv R A G Y T C 5 ATGCATGC 3 3 TACGTACG 5 8

9 Measures of diversity Number of segregating sites (S) Total number of sites that are polymorphic Nucleotide diversity (π) Mean number of nucleotide differences per site between 2 sequences DNA Sequence Evolution AAGATTT AAGACTT AGGACTT -3O,OOO yrs -20,000 yrs AAGGTTT AAGATTC AGGACTC -10,000 yrs AAAGTTT GAGATTC AGGATTC AGGATTC AGGGCTC today 9

10 Microsatellites Highly repetitive DNA One repeat unit (2-4 nucleotides) repeated multiple times within a sequence Alleles defined by length differences Synonyms: Short tandem repeats (STRs) Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) Mechanisms of mutation (slipped-strand mispairing) Step 1 ca ca ca ca gt gt gt gt gt gt gt Step 2 Step 3 ca ca ca ca gt gt gt gt gt gt gt Step 4 ca ca ca ca ca ca gt gt gt gt gt gt gt 10

11 Allelic Variation at a Microsatellite Locus GCCATGACACACACAGTAACGT Allele A Allele B GCCATGACACACACACACACACACAGTAACGT S Direction of travel M F 11

12 10/14/09 Dispersal / structure Parentage / mating systems Source of invasions / colonisation routes Level of diversity Hybridisation / introgression Impact of habitat change 12

13 Measures of diversity using microsat s Diploid genomes Allelic diversity (A) Mean number of alleles per locus Heterozygosity (H) Sum of proportions of heterozygotes at all loci divided by number of loci ( ) / 5 = 0.14 Percent loci polymorphic (P) Percent of loci with >1 allele Ahonen et al Molecular Ecology, (999) Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA reveals isolation of imperilled grey nurse shark populations (Carcharias taurus) Fig. 1 (a) The geographic distribution of the grey nurse shark is shown, pie charts are distribution and frequencies of mtdna haplotypes. (b) Haplotype network for mtdna control region. 13

14 Fig. 3 A maximum parsimony tree constructed using sequence data from the mitochondrial control region. Fig. 2 Stronger differentiation between regions in the northern and southern hemisphere is illustrated with this UPMGA tree generated with Nei's D A genetic distance measure and 5000 bootstraps across six microsatellite loci. 14

15 10/14/09 Conservation implications for grey nurse sharks Populations are genetically discrete entities in different parts of the world. Exchange among populations is low and genetic divergence high. Each population should be regarded as evolutionary significant units (Waples 1991). In contrast to pelagic species, grey nurse shark needs to be managed regionally. Outline Introduction to conservation genetics Genetic diversity and measurement NEXT THURSDAY: Genetic consequences of small population size and extinction. Defining conservation and management units based on population genetics. 15

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