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Many captive tigers are of purebred ancestry; finding raises their conservation value
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, April 28th, 2008
Tigers held in captivity around the world—including those in zoos, circuses, and private homes—may hold considerable conservation value for the rapidly dwindling wild populations around the world, according to a new report published online on April 17th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Using a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers, researchers discovered that many apparently "generic" tigers actually represent purebred subspecies and harbor genomic diversity no longer found in nature.
" Assessment of 'verified subspecies ancestry' (VSA) offers a powerful tool that, if applied to tigers of uncertain background, may considerably increase the...
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