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DNA from more than 100 of the critically endangered birds could help to save the species from
28 August 2023
Katharine Sanderson
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02702-6
The majority of kākāpō (Strigops habroptila), a critically endangered flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand, have had their genomes sequenced[SUP]1[/SUP]. ...
A team of researchers and conservationists, led by Peter Dearden, a biochemist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, sequenced the genomes of 169 kākāpō, from both living individuals and stored samples. At the time, this represented nearly the entire kākāpō population. ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02702-6
28 August 2023
Katharine Sanderson
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02702-6
The majority of kākāpō (Strigops habroptila), a critically endangered flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand, have had their genomes sequenced[SUP]1[/SUP]. ...
A team of researchers and conservationists, led by Peter Dearden, a biochemist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, sequenced the genomes of 169 kākāpō, from both living individuals and stored samples. At the time, this represented nearly the entire kākāpō population. ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02702-6