Conservation strategies for species under threat of extinction are founded on various lines of biological insight. The advent of high throughput sequencing technology and population level sampling are ...

The National Science Foundation will fund research at UC Santa Cruz that will examine the DNA of brown bears in the lower 48 states, where the iconic beast’s numbers have seen catastrophic declines ...

Genomic approaches have transformed conservation genetics by providing detailed insights into genetic diversity, population structure and adaptive variation. High-throughput sequencing technologies ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly powerful in conservation. And it’s just getting started.

Beijing, China: Genetic diversity forms the evolutionary foundation of all biodiversity, yet it remains understudied compared with species and ecosystem diversity. A new review published in Biological ...

Gibbons, small apes closely related to humans, face severe threats to their survival. However, their evolutionary history has remained unclear due to their rapid diversification. A new, comprehensive ...

A new genomic study of the endangered Oriental Stork reveals that the population's genetic health is still surprisingly strong, with high genetic diversity and low levels of inbreeding. This is an ...

Learn how animal scat reveals DNA insights on species, population size, diet, and movement—helping scientists protect ...

Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study. “Any threat that reduces the size of a population, or which causes a larger population to become ...

Scientists have successfully revived living cells from a southern white rhino nearly four years after its death, opening the ...

For fifty years, the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute has protected one of the world’s richest reservoirs of crop diversity while helping shape global debates ...