Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has awarded Saint Mary’s University a contract to update the DNA database of one of the most critically endangered species in Canadian waters.

We reconstructed a family tree with many different branches and ... of this family occurred and were possibly favored, but close inbreeding was avoided." Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar ...

People were stunned by the story, but Priscilla said marrying her first cousin wasn't shocking when you saw her family tree. Her great ... and the results of inbreeding. One person wrote: "I ...

“We reconstructed a family tree with many different branches and ... this family occurred and were possibly favoured, but close inbreeding was avoided.” Laura is a science news writer ...

While scientists initially relied on family trees (or pedigrees ... isolation of the rhesus macaque population, the levels of inbreeding are surprisingly low, likely due to sex-biased dispersal ...