Huge thanks and congrats to @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder for organising this amazing special issue. It has been fun contributing and interacting with Silu, Anne and the authors of the other manuscripts, including in a Zoom "tea break" where we presented our projects to each other.
This was definitely a labor of love … SO MANY hours of effort (just ask my husband!), but so worth it in the end. It was pure delight to work with the brilliant Silu Wang on this project.
And all papers are open access! www.pnas.org/topic/574
Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Super proud of @meaghansaurus.bsky.social and all the effort this study represents in the field (led by Eric Hileman & Jen Moore!) and in the lab. Worrisome story for the snakes, but important to know, learn from & act on.
Delayed post, but we are excited to share this study on decades of monitoring of translocations launched by the late Reed Bowman. We show a demographic boost (i.e., rescue!), but success was largely driven by a few individuals leading to erosion of genetic diversity.
www.kbs.msu.edu/2025/05/scru...
Joana Meier
Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
We are thrilled for this to be included in the @pnas.org Special Feature: Monitoring & Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574
Wonderful to work with editors @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder and all contributors to this feature
Study led by Tyler Linderoth and wouldn't have been possible without the vision and heroic field efforts of Lauren Deaner (cover photo credit!) and Raoul Boughton nor the genomic resources developed by Nancy Chen and her lab.
Link to paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...
Linderoth et al. find that translocations of Florida Scrub-Jays aid the recovery of
the species by catalyzing population growth but that reproductive skew dampens accompanying
genetic benefits, ultima...
