Tag: genetics

June 20, 2016

July issue of JWM and new Wildlife Monograph now online

The July 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.5) contains the latest research reports on management and conservation, habitat relations, population ecology and quantitative approaches. In this...

September 21, 2015

Digital Tree of Life Shows Evolution of Nearly Everything

How exactly is it that a coyote is related to a mushroom, or a whale to a human? An online draft of the Tree of Life attempts to answer that,...

August 12, 2015

Inbreeding Not to Blame for Bighorn Sheep Decline

Catherine Driscoll was hiking with her father in the Never Summer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains. They were collecting bighorn sheep’s fecal pellet samples to study their genetic variation,...

Hoary bat
June 25, 2015

Researchers Trace Hawaiian Hoary Bat Origins

A new discovery related to Hawaii’s only living native land mammal might mean some revisions regarding how it’s protected under the Endangered Species Act. In a recent study published in...

Black bears
June 19, 2015

Scientists Trace Black Bear Lineage

In a first-ever genomics study of black bears across their North American range, researchers have determined where they come from and how closely different populations are related to one another....