Scott PA, Allison LJ, Field KJ, Averill-Murray RC, Shaffer HB. Response to Comment on "Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises".
Science 2021;
372:372/6546/eabg3199. [PMID:
34083461 DOI:
10.1126/science.abg3199]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
Hedrick brings up several potential concerns that he feels challenge or limit our main finding. Hedrick does not comment on our empirical results, but rather argues that several factors may confound or invalidate our conclusion. Many of these concerns focus on unknown ecological aspects of the translocated tortoises, but we believe there is no reason to conclude that they bias the results or interpretation as presented in our original paper.
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