-Limitations exist due to the expenses needed for the genomic techniques related to conservation

-Molecular genetic analyses of DNA from non-invasive sampling allows much information of importance to conservation to be determined

-Helps with information such as sex of individuals, population size, demographic history, mating and breeding systems, population structure, gene flow, parentage, sites for reintroductions and translocations, identity of disease organisms, diet, etc. (Frankham 2010)

-Opportunities will increase with more inexpensive and powerful molecular techniques, as well as improved methods of analysis

 -Genomic techniques become cheaper and more accessible by the day 

 -Applying the new, more costly techniques are likely to only marginally improve the above mentioned parameter estimates that can be obtained with the old tools (McMahon et al. 2014)

DNA Sequencing. Image retrieved from genome.gov

-For example, genomics will make it possible to provide genome-wide estimates of functional genetic variation and fitness, but will not be sufficient to improve our estimates of population viability unless we are able to make the connections between individual fitness and population growth rates (Allendorf et al. 2010)

-Could be considered the most important and difficult future challenge facing conservation genetics. 

- To make these connections will require long-term studies of individual fitness and of the effects of fitness differences among individuals on demographic vital rates (Allendorf et al. 2010)