SUPR
sand lizard genomics and immunogenetics
Dnr:

NAISS 2025/22-705

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Seraina Bracamonte

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2025-05-09

End Date:

2026-01-01

Primary Classification:

10615: Evolutionary Biology

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Allocation

Abstract

The sand lizard is a species of conservation concern in Sweden. It's populations are small and fragmented with low genetic diversity. A genetic rescue experiment has established an admixed population via cross-breeding of several sand lizard populations. I study the consequences of the genetic rescue for genome-wide diversity and the functionally important immunogenetic diversity. For this, I focus on three populations: the admixed population, its main founder population that suffered from inbreeding depression, and a population in its vicinity that does not show such signs.