Dean Heinze

Nov 28, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Black |Dean Heinze |Robbie Gaffney |Ary Hoffmann

1 INTRODUCTION Small, isolated populations are at an increased risk of inbreeding and can experience strong genetic drift (Charlesworth & Willis, 2009; Lynch et al., 2016; Wright, 1931, 1932). Both processes cause small populations to be more homozygous over time, either by fixing alleles and thus removing heterozygosity from the population (Lynch et al., 2016) or by increasing the likelihood that genomic regions inherited from each parent will be identical (Charlesworth & Willis, 2009).