For many centuries biological materials have been collected to meet human needs—
originally for sustenance and utility but later to satisfy scientific curiosity. Later collections of …

Natural populations currently face a wide variety of threats including climate change, habitat
loss, over-harvesting, invasive species and disease. The most recent report by the …

Conservation of biological diversity entails preservation of all existing species, and
preservation of their associated interspecific and intra-specific variability. This is however, a …

The biodiversity that exists today is the result of 3.5 billion years of evolution. Its preservation
is of critical importance for many reasons, including the intrinsic value of functional …

Max Frisch (1957) observed,“Technology is a way of organizing the world so that man does
not have to experience it.” Nevertheless, these are heady times for genomics. The …

The final words spoken by conference organizer Oliver Ryder (Zoological Society of San
Diego, CA, USA) at the 'Genome Resources for the New Century'gathering in San Diego …

Since the industrial revolution, global diversity loss has been accelerating at an alarming
pace due to human actions. The current rate of species loss is estimated to be 100–1,000 …

It has been 50 years since the landmark paper by Frankel highlighted the importance of
genetic variation for continued evolution in the conservation of species. Despite major …

For more than thirty years, methods and theories from evolutionary biology, phylogenetics,
population genetics and molecular biology have been used by conservation biologists to …

Loss of genetic diversity in wild populations is more likely to be a symptom of endangerment
than its cause. As a result, changes in the genetic structure of endangered species threaten …