Captive breeding programs of endangered species currently provide an important tool for rearing sustained populations. During my PhD I have been focused my research on the potential effects of inbreeding on life-history and morphological traits in two endangered gazelle species (Gazella cuvieri and Nanger dama mhorr) in captivity.
Nowadays, a main goal of my research is to understand the effects of both short- and long-term captivity on the expression of traits that confer success in both captive and wild environments. I am interested in estimating additive genetic variance and thus heritabilities for traits of relevance in ecology as well as in captive breeding programs of the species involved.
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