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 ...

This is especially useful for scientists who want to know family trees or identify blubber drifting ... While the species has a high level of inbreeding due to its small population, he said ...

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

“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 ...

While scientists initially relied on family trees (or pedigrees) to delineate these pairwise ... Despite the prolonged genetic isolation of the rhesus macaque population, the levels of inbreeding are ...