Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal a Close Relationship Between Two Hawk-Eagles
New near-complete mitochondrial genomes from the South Philippine Hawk-eagle and Changeable Hawk-Eagle reveal a shared DNA feature and…
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A continuing selection of new studies, conservation projects and important developments connected to species in the archive.
Coyotes and dogs may share a hookworm that can infect people
In Costa Rica, hookworm variants found in coyotes and dogs did not group by host or sampling area.…
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Elephants Have Unusual Enzyme Genes for Processing Foreign Compounds
A comparison of African and Asian elephants found duplicated UGT2B enzyme variants and differences in SULT genes. Tissue…
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Social ties may shape how genes affect spotted hyena reproductive success
A study of wild spotted hyenas in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater found that estimates of inherited differences in lifetime…
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Canine distemper virus found in foxes and badgers in northern Italy
Researchers detected canine distemper virus in six red foxes and six European badgers among 43 wild carnivores examined…
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Virus known from sheep and goats detected in an Italian roe deer
Researchers detected small ruminant lentivirus in one of 179 roe deer sampled in central Italy—the first reported molecular…
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Dhole Gets Its First Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly
Researchers assembled a 2.42-billion-base genome for the dhole, anchoring 97.0% of its sequence to 39 chromosomes. The resource…
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An ancient viral gene may have been repurposed in elephant placenta
An ancient viral gene that appears to have been inherited for at least 79 million years is strongly…
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Three genetic lineages, but no clear family tree for long-tailed tits
A study of long-tailed tits across the Palaearctic found three main genetic groups, including one that brings birds…
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Berlin’s red squirrels show genetic differences across urban green spaces
A study of Eurasian Red Squirrels at three Berlin sites found genetic structure between green spaces, even though…
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Ancient DNA recovered from dire wolf and coyote teeth at La Brea
Researchers recovered authentic ancient DNA from three of ten extracts made from dire wolf and coyote teeth at…
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Los Angeles’s Urban Cores Absorb and Pass On Coyote Gene Variants
Genetic data from Greater Los Angeles show gene flow across four major highways. Although variants flowed strongly from…
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Genes Linked to the Stripes of Wild Boar Piglets
Genetic analysis of a 932-piglet breeding population and skin from three striped newborn hybrids implicated MC1R, KIT and…
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Three Mosquito-Borne Viruses Followed Different Paths After an Outbreak in Southern Portugal
Bird and mosquito surveillance from 2021 to 2023 found West Nile virus each year, Usutu virus in two…
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How far young blue tits move from home may be partly inherited—but nest boxes complicate the picture
Across four blue tit populations, estimated heritability of natal dispersal distance was modest and uncertain. Nest-box layout could…
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DNA in Droppings Reveals Individual Sambar – but DNA Traces Degrade Quickly in Nature
Droppings could allow researchers to monitor sambar populations without capturing the animals. An Australian experiment shows that the…
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Immigration Could Both Change and Stabilise Great Tits’ Clutch Sizes
On the Dutch island of Vlieland, incoming great tits could both counter a trend towards fewer eggs and…
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Bird Droppings Contained Both Plant Nutrients and Resistance Genes
Droppings from wintering waterbirds at Caohai in China contained phosphorus that can readily become available to algae. Researchers…
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A Little-Known Microbial World Inside Lions’ Guts
Faecal samples from wild lions in Namibia gave researchers a much clearer picture of their gut bacteria. Microbial…
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Chromosomes Reveal the Shared History of Humans and Rhesus Macaques
Researchers used fluorescent DNA labels to compare human and rhesus macaque chromosomes. The resulting map shows extensive similarities…
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