Captive Breeding Programs Based on Family Groups in Polyploid Sturgeons

Captive Breeding Programs Based on Family Groups in Polyploid Sturgeons

In species with long life cycles and discontinuous availability of individuals to reproduction, implementing a long-term captive breeding program can be difficult or impossible. In such cases, managing diversity among familiar groups instead of individuals could become a suitable approach to avoid inbreeding and increase the possibility to accomplish a breeding scheme. This is the case of sever...

Minimizing genetic adaptation in captive breeding programs: A review

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.05.034 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 4007; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] mail.ucf.edu (E.A. Hoffman). Captive breeding for species of conservation concern is the act of bringing rare or endangered animals into captivity with the hope of rearing sustained captive populations for eventual ...

Kinship-based management strategies for captive breeding programs when pedigrees are unknown or uncertain.

Zoo-based captive breeding programs typically rely on accurate pedigrees to maintain long-term population genetic diversity and prevent close inbreeding. For many mixed-sex captive populations, it is difficult to assign parentage of offspring with certainty without conducting DNA-based parentage analyses. Using the demographic parameters of a North American captive population of Arabian oryx (O...

Captive Breeding of Birds

Captive Breeding and Gene Banks

Today, our planet is in a state of crisis and many of its natural resources have been destroyed by human activities. One of the principle aims of conservation biology is to promote concrete management programs to limit any further increase in the number of extinct and threatened species and ecosystems. Different approaches may be followed to maintain the world’s biodiversity: the in situ approa...