Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unprecedented power and accuracy. This pioneering book presents the advances and potential of population genomics in wildlife, outlining key population genomics concepts and questions in wildlife biology, population genomics approaches that are specifically applicable to wildlife, and application of population genomics in wildlife population and evolutionary biology, ecology, adaptation and conservation and management. It is important for students, researchers, and wildlife professionals to understand the growing set of population genomics tools that can address issues from delineation of wildlife populations to assessing their capacity to adapt to environmental change. This book brings together leading experts in wildlife population genomics to discuss the key areas of the field, as well as challenges, opportunities and future prospects of wildlife population genomics.

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Dr. Paul A. HohenloheAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Idaho
Department of Biological SciencesInstitute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies
Moscow, IDUSA
Dr. Om P. RajoraProfessorUniversity of New BrunswickFaculty of Forestry and Environmental ManagementFredericton, NBCanada

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Preface

**I. **Perspectives, methods and genomic resources 

1 Wildlife population genomics perspectives

Paul Hohenlohe (University of Idaho) and Om Rajora (University of New Brunswick)

2 Genomic techniques for non-invasive sampling and low-quality DNA

Kim Andrews, Lisette Waits (University of Idaho)

3 Sampling and experimental design for wildlife genomics

Eric Anderson (NOAA)

4 Wildlife genomes

Jochen Wolf (Uppsala University)

II. P****opulation and evolutionary genetic inferences ****

5 Structural and functional population genomic diversity and structure

Jonathan Pritchard (University of Chicago)

6 Population genomic inferences for demography and evolution of wildlife

Robin Waples (NOAA)

Aaron Shafer (Uppsala University)

7 Landscape population genomics

Sam Cushman (Northern Arizona University)

III. Management perspectives

8 Population genomics in wildlife management

Mike Schwartz (US Forest Service)

9 Wildlife forensics

Rob Ogden (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland)

10 Wildlife populations and climate change 

Clint Muhlfeld (US Geological Survey)

IV. Progress and promises of population genomics in wildlife  An overview ****

A: Speciation, interspecific  admixture, phylogenetic relationships, and evolution

11 Bears

Charlotte Lindqvist (Buffalo University)

Beth Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz)

12 Canids

Bob Wayne (UCLA)

13 Equids

Ludovic Orlando (University of Copenhagen)

14 Birds

David P. Toews (Cornell University)

Hans Ellegren (Uppsala University)

15 Bats

Uma Ramakrishnan (National Center for Biological Sciences, India)

16 Crocodiles

David A. Ray (Mississippi State University)

17 Amphibians

W. Chris Funk (Colorado State University)

B: Demography and phylogeography

18 Turtles Brad Shaffer (UCLA)

19 Walrus

Aaron Shafer (Trent University)

20 Bears

Goran Spong (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

Charlotte Lindqvist (Buffalo University)

Beth Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz)

21 Lions

Warren F. Johnson (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA)

Agostinho Antures (University of Porto, Potugal)

22 Deer

Emily Latch (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

C: Genomics of small populations

23 Bighorn sheep

David Coltman (University of Alberta)

24 Kiwi

Kristina Ramstad (University of South Carolina, Aiken)

D. Population genomics of wildlife disease

25 White nose disease in bats

Marm Kilpatrick (UC Santa Cruz) 26 Transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils Paul Hohenlohe (University of Idaho)

E: Genomics of adaptation to changing environments

27 Pika

Michael Russello (UBC Okanagan)

28 Snowshoe hare <p...