Instytut Ogrodnictwa – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Coordination is not admixture: gene flow in the European mink requires staged genomic and risk-based justification

This Letter comments on Nummert-Meister et al. (2026) and their recommendation for closer management of eastern and western captive populations of the critically endangered European mink Mustela lutreola . It agrees that demographic urgency, fragmentation and continuing genetic e...