Molecular Ecology in the News

Lion DNA convicts poachers in world firstInvestigators reveal how they were able to identify a missing animal using a database of lions in Zimbabwe.

Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching, a study findsResearchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Second Endangered Przewalski’s Horse Foal Born as a Result of CloningScientists are delighted with the recent birth of the world’s second successfully cloned Przewalski’s horse. The foal, born 17 February to a domestic surrogate mare, is a clone of a male Przewalski’s horse stallion whose living cell line was cryopreserved over 40 years ago in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Biodiversity Bank’s Frozen Zoo® in San Diego, Calif.

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