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Department of Biological Sciences

Richard Frankham

biology staff Name: Richard Frankham

Position: Emeritus Professor
Email: richard.frankham@mq.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9850 8186
Fax: +61 2 9850 8245
Room: E8B219
Interests:

- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics.

- Selective sweeps in captive populations

- Predicting the risk of outbreeding depression

- Evolution in weeds and Cost of inbreeding revisited

- Writing textbooks. Recently completed the 2nd edition of Introduction to Conservation Genetics in collaboration with Jonathan Ballou and David Briscoe.
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Recent Publications

R. Frankham. Genetic adaptation to captivity in species conservation programs, Molecular Ecology, 17:325-333, 2008

R. Frankham. Genetic considerations in reintroduction programmes for top-order, terrestrial predators, in Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators, 371-387 (M. W. Hayward and M. J. Somers eds., Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2009

R. Frankham, J. D. Ballou and D. A. Briscoe. Introduction to Conservation Genetics, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

J. J. O'Grady, D. H. Reed, B. W. Brook and R. Frankham. Extinction risk scales better to generations than years, Animal Conservation, 11:442-451, 2008

J. van der Werf, H-U. Graser, R. Frankham and C. Gondro eds. Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management, Springer, Dordrecht, 2009

 

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