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Our paper ‘Current applications and future promise of genetic/genomic data for conservation in an Aotearoa New Zealand context’ is now available as an open-access peer-reviewed report in @docgovtnz’s Science for Conservation series: doc.govt.nz/globalassets/d… 🧵1/7
To support conservation practitioners in identifying appropriate tools to inform conservation management, we review opportunities, challenges and costs associated with available & emerging tools, incl #pedigrees, #microsatellites, #genomes, #eDNA, #aDNA, #pangenomes & more! 2/7
This is a dynamic field, & costs (incl 💰🕒🥼🖥️) are rapidly changing. With >300 references, we hope this paper will be a useful resource for #conservation researchers & practitioners keen to apply the #conservation toolbox, esp. in an Aotearoa context. 3/7 
1) Today's been a hell of a day for plant #pangenomes.
In nature.com/articles/s4158… Walkowiak et al analyze up to 16 wheat cultivars to report on the global variation pool accessible to modern breeding
In nature.com/articles/s4158… Walkowiak et al analyze up to 16 wheat cultivars to report on the global variation pool accessible to modern breeding
2) In nature.com/articles/s4158… Jayakodi et al analyze 20 + 300 barley varieties, including the reference Morex, to find presence-absence and inversions in the context of breeding.
3) In academic.oup.com/genetics/advan… Noshay et al study the effect of tranposon element polymorphisms on gene expression in maize, finding that genes with TE events in accessible chromatine regions are associated with higher expression, suggesting that these TEs contribute novel CREs
