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If they are successful, how do they navigate challenges related to inbreeding given what is likely to be a very small population of adult animals to work with?
by tmountain 4y ago
If they are successful, how do they navigate challenges related to inbreeding given what is likely to be a very small population of adult animals to work with?
- kibwen 4y agoSince the thylacine has been extinct for less than a century, they appear to be hoping that there's enough genetic diversity in modern preserved samples to eventually produce a diverse population. Even with a highly limited population, if you strictly control which pairs breed and aggressively pair the ones that are least related, you only need an initial population of like 16 or something to eventually reach a state where you have a large breeding population where most individuals don't share grandparents, at which point you can let nature take over.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoRandom mutagenesis eg radiation could be used to introduce diversity.