Introduction to Conservation Genetics

Sentence should read: "Extinctions were more frequent for populations with smaller initial population sizes, larger fluctuations in population size and shorter generation times."

Values for Plants should read:

Line 1 on page77 refers to the frequency of A1 as 0.1 and A2 as 0.9, referencing Table 4.3. However in Table 4.3 the frequencies are reversed: A1 with 0.9 and A2 with 0.1.

Crnokrak & Roff (1995) cited in Table 5.6 is missing from the references: Crnokrak, P & D.A. Roff. 1995. Dominance variance: associations with selection and fitness. Heredity 75, 530-540.

Box 6.1, last sentence, "virus stain" should read "virus strain"

Bottleneck size for black-footed ferrets is 7

Average number of alleles was reduced from 12 to 3.75, not from 6.7 to 2.4.

Meta-analysis included 34 data sets and the average correlation between fitness and heterozygosity was 0.43

The table for heterozygosity for allotetraploids in Example 10.4 is formatted incorrectly. The correct format should be:

Practical exercise 2. Initial allele frequencies should be p = 0.1, q = 0.9

Exercise 12.5: the second F value should be 0.0625 instead of 0.625.

The recovery numbers for the California condors are for downlisting from endangered to threatened, not for de-listing the species.

The first species is actually Petrogale coensis rather than P. godmani and the last is P. penicillata rather than P. p. pencillata. Corresponding changes should be made on the figure.

Helianthus paradoxus should not be referred to as a recent hybrid between common species. While it has a hybrid origin, it is an ancient hybrid that is distinct from its progenitor species and is clearly deserving of species status.

Under 4, the text "Anthropogenic convergence - treat as distinct population" should be moved to (a) under 5.

DNA fingerprint heterozygosity for the domestic cat should be 44.0 and the caption for bottom figure should be "Coiled tail, abnormal acrosome"

black-footed rock wallaby, not black-striped

founders were identified as actually African X Asiatic hybrids, not African

10 founders for Arabian oryx, 7 for black-footed ferrets, and 12 for Guam rails.

Kinships for Thelma and Louise should be 5/16 (0.3125) not 9/32; and mean kinships for them should be 0.2656.

Caption for Fig. 19.5: (c) should be labeled (b) and visa versa; 5th line from the bottom, example of greater prairie chickens is in Box 10.2

Sentence should read: "Consequently, buffalo exhibit recurrent maternal gene flow between Chobe and more northerly populations."

End of first para: Figure 15.1, not box 15.1

Insert after sentence that ends with "....22 homozygotes.": "Similarly, gosling 4 possesses allele 2 at locus G yet allele 2 is not present in wither putative parent."

In the PVA data set, Sex ratio (SR) should be 50 not 0.5

Additive variance: That proportion of the genetic variation for a quantitative character due to variation in the average effects of alleles.

Demographic variation:....For example, the last dusky seaside sparrows were, by chance, all males.

Dominance variance: That proportion of the quantitative genetic variation for a character due to the deviation of heterozygotes from the average effects of the two homozygotes.

Interaction variance: That proportion of the quantitative genetic variation for a quantitative character due to the deviation of genotypic effects from the average effects of the constituent loci. Synonymous with Epistatic variance.

Random (not Randomly) amplified polymorphic DNA... Similar change under RAPD.

After problem R.6, the table of relative fitnesses is the answer to R.7

Beissinger and McCullough should be 2002, not 2001.

Add reference:
Ecological Bulletin. 2000. The use of population viability analysis in conservation planning. Ecological Bulletin 48. 1-203. (editors Sjögren-Gulve P. & Ebenhard, T.)

Hoelzer 1998. Title should be: Molecular Genetic Analysis of Populations: A Practical Approach.

Margan et al should include author "E. Lowe" after Woodworth.

Add reference:
Reed, D. H. and R. Frankham. 2002. Population fitness is correlated with genetic diversity. Conservation Biology 17:230-237.

Slate et al. Page numbers should be: 1657-1662.