Unprecedented rates of species extinction increase the urgency for effective conservation biology management practices. Thus, any improvements in practice are vital and we suggest that conservation can be enhanced through recent advances in evolutionary biology, specifically advances put forward by evolutionary developmental biology (i.e., evo-devo). There are strong overlapping conceptual links between conservation and evo-devo whereby both fields focus on evolutionary potential. In particular, benefits to conservation can be derived from some of the main areas of evo-devo research, namely phenotypic plasticity, modularity and integration, and mechanistic investigations of the precise developmental and genetic processes that determine phenotypes. Using examples we outline how evo-devo can expand into conservation biology, an opportunity which holds great promise for advancing both fields.

前所未有的物种灭绝速度增加了有效的保护生物学管理实践的紧迫性。因此，实践中的任何改进都是至关重要的，我们建议可以通过进化生物学的最新进展，尤其是进化发育生物学（即evo-devo）提出的进展来加强保护。在保护与发展之间有很强的重叠概念联系，因此这两个领域都集中在进化潜力上。尤其可以从evo-devo研究的一些主要领域中获得保护的益处，即表型可塑性，模块性和整合性以及确定表型的精确发育和遗传过程的机械研究。通过示例，我们概述了evo-devo如何扩展到保护生物学，