Sentences with phrase «conservation geneticist»

Such issues mean ivory yields from managed herds would be «far below» current global demand, estimated at 210 metric tons annually, predicts Samuel Wasser, a conservation geneticist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

«Our method tells law enforcement officials, «This is where you need to be looking for poachers,»» says Samuel Wasser, a conservation geneticist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the lead author of the new study published in this month's Conservation Biology.

Now, the little spot, at 1600 to 1700 strong, is «considered to be quite safe,» says conservation geneticist Kristina Ramstad of Victoria University of Wellington.

«That would be conclusive evidence of biological species - level differences — a natural test,» says Scott Baker, a conservation geneticist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, who was not involved in the research.

«The biggest problem here is releasing animals with no known origin,» says Juliana Machado Ferreira, a conservation geneticist who directs Freeland Brasil, an anti — wildlife - trafficking organization in São Paulo.

Edward Louis, the zoo conservation geneticist in Omaha, Nebraska, responsible for the finds, says this is just the beginning: «Lemurs, especially the nocturnal ones, haven't gotten the attention they've deserved.

Although in the classical view species are not supposed to be able to interbreed successfully, that was and still is not always true of bonobos and chimpanzees, says Christina Hvilsom, a conservation geneticist at the Copenhagen Zoo.

Scientists have long debated the distinctions among African elephants, which were divided into as many as 18 types in colonial times, says conservation geneticist Lori Eggert of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..

But nibbles from different pandas may look similar, so researchers tended to underestimate the population, according to conservation geneticist Michael Bruford of Cardiff University in Wales.

He explains what his work as a conservation geneticist involves, and he fills us in on the outreach role that is part of his job.

The differences likely reflect the elephants» social behaviors, says Alfred Roca, a conservation geneticist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and one of the study's authors.

Conservation geneticist Benoît Goossens of Cardiff University in Wales and his colleagues gathered DNA from the feces and hair of 200 orangutans in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Borneo.

To find out whether giant and red pandas also gained the ability to taste the bitter toxins in bamboo, researchers led by conservation geneticist Fuwen Wei at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing screened the genomes of both species.

Conservation geneticists studying the DNA of tortoises on nearby Isabela Island have stumbled upon a tortoise with clear signs of Pinta ancestry.

Not exact matches

The major concern is that current gene drives «are probably too powerful for us to seriously consider deploying in conservation,» says geneticist Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

The researchers provide a new mathematical model that can be used by population geneticists and ecologists to better predict how social groups will influence the way species maintain genetic diversity and evolve, and ultimately help in the conservation of species.

«This is a really big issue,» because conservation groups need to know where to spend their resources to best effect, says Robert Fleischer, a geneticist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Wasconservation groups need to know where to spend their resources to best effect, says Robert Fleischer, a geneticist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in WasConservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C.

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

After sequencing the genome of the more populous western gorilla 3 years ago, the geneticists involved approached conservation organizations for help getting blood samples from the much rarer eastern gorillas.

«It's good to know concrete details about the variation of these gorilla populations,» says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research in California who was not involved with the research.

Fossey inspired a strong conservation movement and much research, but until now geneticists had to rely on hair and stool samples to collect DNA.

«The big question for conservation of polar bears is if hybridization occurs rapidly and in combination with other stressors, will that hybridization have more of a negative effect now than it did in the past,» says Andrew Whiteley, a geneticist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Conservation and evolutionary geneticist Philip Hedrick, agrees, but he isn't convinced the study is a true test of genetic rescue.

The genetic investigation of giraffe began when Julian Fennessy of Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia approached Axel Janke, a geneticist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Goethe University in Germany, about five years ago to ask for help with genetic testing of the animal.