Scientists Think They Could Resurrect an Extinct Rat but Don't Really Want To
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A team of scientists recently modeled the likelihood of hauling a species back from dead, using the Christmas Island rat, a…
From Aptornis to Zosterops: What can be done about an extinction crisis 50,000 years in the making?
SciBlogs,
Conservation comes down to values. Do we only focus on the charismatic animals and the things we can see, or do we conserve the…
December 25 - Trypanosoma lewisi
Parasite of the Day,
On December 25, 1643, Captain William Mynors and his crew aboard the ship the Royal Mary, sailed past a small island in the…
Mamuts, virus, hielo, clones
Blog de José Luis Castillo,
Hay una teoría que cuenta cómo pudieron desaparecer los mamuts, la especie más famosa de la megafauna americana. En esa teoría…
A PLoS ONE article that is hot favourite of F1000 Editors
BLoG ONE,
Last month I evaluated on F1000 an article from PLoS ONE that addressed infection as a driving force for the extinction of rats…
The first case of mammalian extinction due to an exotic disease – an alarm bell for conservation efforts?
BLoG ONE,
An interesting article that we accepted last month for PLoS ONE describes a very fine DNA detective work to put forth the…