It has been estimated that three species on the planet now go extinct every hour and that this
rate is orders of magnitude higher than the planet has seen in previous catastrophic …

The emergence of de‐extinction is a study in technological optimism. What has already
been accomplished in recovering ancient genomes, recreating them, and reproducing …

We are living through the first mass extinction since the end of the Cretaceous period 65
million years ago. During most of the past 600 million years, only one species of plant or …

One interesting feature of de‐extinction—particularly with respect to long‐extinct species
such as the passenger pigeon, thylacine, and mammoth—is that it does not fit neatly into the …

Conservation biology has been accurately described as a crisis discipline. Much like the
human disease crisis disciplines of HIV biology and cancer biology, conservation biology …

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

The concept of de-extinction, aimed at restoration of extinct species, is controversial (1).
Improvements in de-extinction techniques (back-breeding, cloning, and genomic …

Background In conservation genetics, molecular data can play two fundamental roles that I
will refer to as the mechanistic (or functional) and the inventorial. With respect to the …

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 …

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