Tigers need diverse gene pool to survive
Posted by staff / April 16, 2014 genetic variabilityinterbreedingtigers
New research shows that increasing genetic diversity among the 3,000 or so tigers left on the planet, though interbreeding and other methods, may be the key to their survival as a species.
“Since genetic variability is the raw material for future evolution, our results suggest that without interbreeding subpopulations of tigers, the genetic future for tigers is not viable,” says Uma Ramakrishnan,a former Stanford postdoctoral scholar in biology and current researcher at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India.
Full story at Futurity.
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