Insights from the rescue and breeding management of Cuvier's gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) through whole-genome sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Captive breeding programmes represent the most intensive type of ex situ population management for threatened species. One example is the Cuvier's gazelle programme that started in 1975 with only four founding individuals, and after more than four decades of management in captivity, a reintroduction effort was undertaken in Tunisia in 2016, to establish a population in an area historically included within its range. Here, we aim to determine the genetic consequences of this reintroduction event by assessing the genetic diversity of the founder stock as well as of their descendants. We present the first whole-genome sequencing dataset of 30 Cuvier's gazelles including captive-bred animals, animals born in Tunisia after a reintroduction and individuals from a genetically unrelated Moroccan p

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Estape M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8965372 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature