Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Incorporating evolutionary and threat processes into crop wild relatives conservation

  • Wolke Tobón-Niedfeldt,
  • Alicia Mastretta-Yanes,
  • Tania Urquiza-Haas,
  • Bárbara Goettsch,
  • Angela P. Cuervo-Robayo,
  • Esmeralda Urquiza-Haas,
  • M. Andrea Orjuela-R,
  • Francisca Acevedo Gasman,
  • Oswaldo Oliveros-Galindo,
  • Caroline Burgeff,
  • Diana M. Rivera-Rodríguez,
  • José de Jesús Sánchez González,
  • Jesús Alarcón-Guerrero,
  • Araceli Aguilar-Meléndez,
  • Flavio Aragón Cuevas,
  • Valeria Alavez,
  • Gabriel Alejandre-Iturbide,
  • Carlos-H. Avendaño-Arrazate,
  • César Azurdia Pérez,
  • Alfonso Delgado-Salinas,
  • Pablo Galán,
  • Manuel González-Ledesma,
  • Jesús Hernández-Ruíz,
  • Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández,
  • Rafael Lira Saade,
  • Aarón Rodríguez,
  • Dagoberto Rodríguez Delcid,
  • José Ariel Ruiz-Corral,
  • Juan José Santos Pérez,
  • Ofelia Vargas-Ponce,
  • Melania Vega,
  • Ana Wegier,
  • Martín Quintana-Camargo,
  • José Sarukhán,
  • Patricia Koleff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33703-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Crop wild relatives’ genetic diversity is usually not considered in conservation planning. Here, the authors introduce an approach to identify conservation areas based on evolutionary and threat processes, by developing proxies of genetic differentiation, and including taxa’s habitat preferences.