Reintroducing Cuvier’s gazelle. Better than expected from captive-bred founders
The use of captive-bred animals as founder stock for reintroduction is sometimes discouraged due to their low genetic diversity and even accumulation of deleterious alleles. In October 2016, 43 Cuvier’s gazelles (12 males and 31 females), managed under a European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-09-01
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Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198941930890X |