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The guppy as a conservation model: implications of parasitism and inbreeding for reintroduction success.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Dec 2007
van Oosterhout Cock, Smith Alan M, Hänfling Bernd, Ramnarine Indar W, Mohammed Ryan S, Cable Joanne
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Ex situ conservation is of increasing importance to prevent the extinction of endangered animals in the wild. Despite low success rates of reintroduction programs few researchers have investigated empirically the efficacy of captive breeding regimes for the release of captive-bred vertebrates. We...
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