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There are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Emma L Carroll conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Michael Bruford conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

J. Andrew DeWoody conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Gregoire Leroy conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Allan Strand conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Lisette Waits conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Jinliang Wang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The research in this article did not generate any data or code. It is a review article.

Funding

This work was assisted through participation in the Next Generation Genetic Monitoring Investigative Workshop at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, sponsored by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The work arose as part of the intro-population working group that came from this workshop. The authors would like to thank the French Government for providing for the secondment of Dr Gregoire Leroy to FAO. ELC was supported by a Marie Slodowska Curie Fellowship, (Behaviour-Connect) funded by the EU Horizon2020 program. MWB was supported by a Royal Society Wolfson research merit award. LW was supported by the University of Idaho. This research was supported in part by NSF awards 1355106 and 1357386 to AES. Animal shapes in Boxes 1 and 2 are from www.phylopic.org and under Public Domain and Creative Commons licenses, that can be reused with the following acknowledgements: whale shark; Scarlet23 (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey), elephant; T. Michael Keesey; ostrich: Matt Martyniuk (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey). Disclaimer: The views expressed in this information product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of FAO. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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