TY - JOUR

T1 - Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”

AU - Hansson, Bengt

AU - Morales, Hernán E.

AU - van Oosterhout, Cock

N1 - Funding Information: This project received funding from the Swedish Research Council (consolidator grant 621-2016-689 to B.H.), the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant 840519 to H.E.M.), the Earth and Life Systems Alliance (ELSA) of Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK (to C.v.O.). All authors contributed equally to this work. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Scott et al. (Reports, 27 November 2020, p. 1086) bring much-needed attention to species conservation by demonstrating heterozygote superiority among translocated tortoises. However, we believe that their recommended heterozygosity decision rule risks taking conservation genomics backward. We argue that their advice could misguide conservation management aimed at establishing viable populations, and that it can be improved by also assessing the genetic load.

AB - Scott et al. (Reports, 27 November 2020, p. 1086) bring much-needed attention to species conservation by demonstrating heterozygote superiority among translocated tortoises. However, we believe that their recommended heterozygosity decision rule risks taking conservation genomics backward. We argue that their advice could misguide conservation management aimed at establishing viable populations, and that it can be improved by also assessing the genetic load.

U2 - 10.1126/science.abh1105

DO - 10.1126/science.abh1105

M3 - Comment/debate

C2 - 34083458

AN - SCOPUS:85107592335

VL - 372

JO - Science

JF - Science

SN - 0036-8075

IS - 6546

M1 - eabh1105

ER -