Efforts to diversify an inbred population must take into account the genetic backgrounds of the founders. A female kākāpō named Rimu, whose parents are both...
Conservation BiologyG3 JournalPopulation GeneticsVertebratesWildlife
A new genome assembly for Antarctic fur seals sheds light on their historic comeback after 19th century hunting. In the late 19th century, the Antarctic...
Conservation BiologyFundamental ResearchG3 JournalGenomicsMammalsPopulation GeneticsVertebrates
A green, iridescent bee perches on a pink flower, extending its proboscis to reach the sweet nectar inside. He’s not just after a meal—he’s also...
BehaviorConservation BiologyFundamental ResearchG3 JournalGenomicsInsects
Towering sugar pine trees dominate the mountain forests of California and Oregon. They are the tallest pine trees in the world, regularly growing to skyscraper...
BioinformaticsConservation BiologyForestryG3 JournalGenetics JournalGenomicsPlantsSequencingTransposable Elements
The sex of many reptile species is set by temperature. New research reported in the journal GENETICS identifies the first gene associated with temperature-dependent sex...
Climate ChangeComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsConservation BiologyDevelopmentGene ExpressionGenetics JournalPopulation GeneticsReptilesWildlife
In 1996, when I started researching the conservation genetics of New Zealand’s critically endangered parrot, the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus), little was known of the species’...
Amphibians around the world have been devastated by the spread of the deadly fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). But although many populations have been decimated, others...
In 2009, after five years parching under the arid blue skies of Calcena in northeastern Spain, dozens of neat rows of maritime pine seedlings had...
Climate ChangeConservation BiologyEvolutionForestryGenetics Journal
The loblolly pine genome is big. Bloated with retrotransposons and other repetitive sequences, it is seven times larger than the human genome and easily big...
Conservation BiologyForestryGenomicsSequencingTransposable Elements
