Releasers - Anne Kilmer couldn't possibly be more wrong!

[Bruce Walsh]

Xi Wang wrote 
"At what point do we characterize release as detrimental to the
dynamics of population genetics? "

There was actually a lot of discussion on this point on the list several
years back.  The short answer is   that the number of releases must
comprise a very significant fraction of the local population in order to
increase the frequency of a deleterious allele in the population.

Cheers

bruce


 
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