The species Orcinus orca, generally known as orcas or killer whales, is made up of many genetically distinct populations ...

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

Key genetic resources of important native tree and grass species, as well as those of rare and endangered ones, have been ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 December) — Captive Philippine eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi) preserve all known maternal genetic lineages of the critically endangered national bird, a new study ...

Bromeliaceae has been used as a model Neotropical group to study evolutionary and diversification processes. Moreover, since large parts of the Neotropics are under anthropogenic pressure, a high ...

In an unprecedented move, the Assam government has officially recognized the Wildlife Genetics Laboratory (WGL) run by Aaranyak and its Director, Udayan Borthakur, for their expertise in wildlife ...

Discovered genes provide strategies to protect rice crops against climate change and to domesticate wild relatives that can grow in currently unproductive habitats A new study, seen in Nature Genetics ...

The wild turkey is one of America’s favorite game birds. Saved from precipitous decline in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the birds now range across the entire Lower 48. While there are five subspecies in ...

Garden asparagus (Asparagus Officinalis L.) is an important horticultural crop. Modern cultivars are diploid hybrids with a narrow genetic base due to their common origin, the ‘Violet Dutch’ ...

Researchers from Guangdong Academy of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University and their colleagues have assembled chromosome-scale genomes for two critically endangered pangolin species: the Chinese ...