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Genes are the basic material of evolutionary changes and, at the same time, hold in memory the records of events that have occurred in the past. Thus conservation of species is also conservation of the result of an evolutionary process manifested in the genetic and genomic structures of a population. Studies of evolution and genetic variation are clearly essential topics for the development of theory and practice in conservation biology.
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Loeschcke, V., Tomiuk, J., Jain, S.K. (1994). Introductory remarks: Genetics and conservation biology. In: Loeschcke, V., Jain, S.K., Tomiuk, J. (eds) Conservation Genetics. EXS, vol 68. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8510-2_1
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