Tag: genome

Red wolves haven’t roamed the marshes of southwestern Louisiana for 40 years, but their genetic “ghosts” remain there in the DNA of coyotes whose ancestors mated with them, researchers say....

As wildlife biologists help return California condors to the wild, researchers found the recovering population has surprisingly high genetic diversity, which offers some good news for a species that has...

Researchers are delving into the genomes of Pacific pocket mice to help inform conservationists about the best ways to recover the federally endangered species, which has only three populations left...

Researchers say they have sequenced the genome of every butterfly species in the United States and Canada — what they are calling a “complete butterfly continent.” Biologists at the University...

The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) once ranged from southern New England to Florida to Colorado, but by 1918, the last of its kind died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo....

Bringing in Texas pumas in the mid-’90s reduced Florida panther inbreeding and increased the panther’s genetic diversity threefold, researchers found after sequencing the panther’s genome. The Florida panther (Puma concolor...

For golden-winged and blue-winged warblers, where they go when they migrate south is in their genes, researchers found. “These small songbirds don’t really have a trainer or a navigator,” said...

Researcher have completed a detailed study of the genomes of ruminants in an effort to shed light on the evolution of species from deer to antelope to domesticated species. The...

The journal Nature is voicing support for a massive project to sequence the DNA of every plant and animal on earth. The Earth BioGenome Project launched earlier this month with...

Across the globe, gray wolves (Canis lupus) carry slivers of chromosomes from domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), pointing to potential genetic hybridization that spans back many generations. Analyzing the canids’...