Sentences with phrase «entire wild populations»

Drive homing occurred at high efficiency (> 90 %) in all four species, strongly suggesting that refined versions may be capable of altering entire wild populations.

This, Esvelt says, «could solve the problem but would of course spread through the entire wild population itself.»

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Unlike ferrets and condors, whose entire populations were gathered up for breeding, Taylor is adamant that vaquitas will never face complete removal from the wild.

Last week, Norway's minister of agriculture and food gave the green light for hunters to kill off the entire herd in which three infected individuals were found, about 2000 reindeer, or nearly 6 % of the country's wild population.

The new technology, known as a gene drive, is genetic engineering on an entirely new scale: It makes it possible not just to modify organisms in the laboratory, but to edit the genes of entire populations in the wild.

But, because the tool, called CRISPR, can alter entire populations of wild organisms (and thus shared ecosystems), ensuring that these interventions are developed responsibly poses an unprecedented challenge for science and society.

Because gene drives could rapidly propagate novel DNA through an entire population in the wild, they could be used, proponents say, to eradicate marauders such as the cane toads overrunning Australia.

The evidence against neonicotinoids now exists in key bee brain cells involved in learning and memory, in whole bees, entire colonies and now at the level of whole populations of wild bees.

[20] Due to having slow locomotion and an insignificant response to bright lights and humans, as well as having a low population density, field studies allow scientists to study entire populations in the wild.

Rather than tracking a small group of individual animals, the team employed dozens of eyes in the wild (that is, non-invasive camera traps) to sample entire populations.