Conservation Genetics

Meffe, GK and CR Carroll, eds.  1997.  Principles of conservation biology.  Sinauer Associates, Inc, Sunderland, Massachusetts.  Chapter 6

Soulé, ME, and BA Wilcox, eds.  1980.  Conservation biology: an evolutionary-ecological perspective.  Sinauer Associates, Inc, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Frankel, OH, and ME Soulé.  1981.  Conservation and evolution.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Lande, R.  1988.  Genetics and demography in biological conservation.  Science 241:1455-1460.

Frankham, R.  1995.  Conservation genetics.  Annual Review of Genetics 29:305-327.

Waples, RS.  2002.  Definition and estimation of effective population size in conservation of endangered species.  In SR Beissinger and DR McCullough, eds.  Population Viability Analysis.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Allendorf, FW, and N Ryman.  2002.  The role of genetics in population viability analysis.  In SR Beissinger and DR McCullough, eds.  Population Viability Analysis.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Empirical studies
Smith, TB, LA Freed, JK Lepson, and JH Carothers.  1995.  Evolutionary consequences of extinctions in populations of a Hawaiian Honeycreeper.  Conservation Biology 9:107-113.

Westemeier, et al.  1998.  Tracking the long-term decline and recovery of an isolated population.  Science 282:1695-1698.

 Saccheri, et al.  1998.  Inbreeding and extinction in a butterfly metapopulation.  Nature 392:491-494.