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

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  • dc.contributor.author Alvarez-Estape, Marina
  • dc.contributor.author Fontseré Alemany, Clàudia, 1992-
  • dc.contributor.author Serres Armero, Aitor, 1992-
  • dc.contributor.author Kuderna, Lukas, 1989-
  • dc.contributor.author Dobrynin, Pavel
  • dc.contributor.author Guidara, Héla
  • dc.contributor.author Pukazhenthi, Budhan S.
  • dc.contributor.author Koepfli, Klaus-Peter
  • dc.contributor.author Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-
  • dc.contributor.author Moreno, Eulalia
  • dc.contributor.author Lizano González, Esther, 1974-
  • dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-11T07:02:01Z
  • dc.date.available 2022-03-11T07:02:01Z
  • dc.date.issued 2022
  • dc.description.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 population. Our analyses revealed no difference between the founder and the offspring cohorts in genome-wide heterozygosity and inbreeding levels, and in the amount and length of runs of homozygosity. The captive but unmanaged Moroccan gazelles have the lowest genetic diversity of all genomes analysed. Our findings demonstrate that the Cuvier’s gazelle captive breeding programme can serve as source populations for future reintroductions of this species. We believe that this study can serve as a starting point for global applications of genomics to the conservation plan of this species.
  • dc.description.sponsorship T.M.-B. is supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 864203), BFU2017-86471-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE), ‘Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu’, funded by the AEI (CEX2018-000792-M), Howard Hughes International Early Career and Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca and CERCA Programme del Departament d’Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya (GRC 2017 SGR 880). E.M. received financial support from the project PGC2018-097426-B-C22 (Spanish Ministry of Universities. Spanish State Research Agency. FEDER Program, European Union). E.L. is supported by CGL2017-82654-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Alvarez-Estape M, Fontsere C, Serres-Armero A, Kuderna LFK, Dobrynin P, Guidara H, Pukazhenthi BS, Koepfli KP, Marques-Bonet T, Moreno E, Lizano E. Insights from the rescue and breeding management of Cuvier’s gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) through whole-genome sequencing. Evol Appl. 2022 Feb 22;15(3):351-64. DOI: 10.1111/eva.13336
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13336
  • dc.identifier.issn 1752-4563
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52678
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Wiley
  • dc.relation.ispartof Evol Appl. 2022 Feb 22;15(3):351-64
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/864203
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/BFU2017-86471-P
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CGL2017-82654-P
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-097426-B-C22
  • dc.rights © 2022 The Authors. Evolutionary Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword Captive breeding
  • dc.subject.keyword Cuvier’s gazelle
  • dc.subject.keyword Genomics
  • dc.subject.keyword Inbreeding
  • dc.subject.keyword Reintroduction
  • dc.title Insights from the rescue and breeding management of Cuvier’s gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) through whole-genome sequencing
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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