Gordon Luikart

Gordon Luikart is a Visiting Professor in the Center for Investigation of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at the University of Porto, Portugal, and a Research Associate Professor at the University of Montana. He was a Research Scientist with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. His research focuses on the conservation and genetics of wild and domestic animals. He is a member of the IUCN specialists group for Caprinae (mountain ungulate) conservation. Recent Publications include
  1. Impacts of modern molecular techniques on conservation biology,
  2. Genetic rescue of an insular population of large mammals,
  3. Estimating effective population size from linkage disequilibrium: severe bias using small samples.

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