Designing a mate choice program: Tactics trialed and lessons learned with the critically endangered honeycreeper, 'akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi)
Abstract Practitioners have increasingly turned to conservation breeding to address species extinction. Breeding programs aim to maximize genetic diversity, but often genetic pairings are behaviorally incompatible, which can compromise offspring production. Allowing animals to choose their own mate...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-04-01
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| Series: | Conservation Science and Practice |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12923 |