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Recovering the Genetic Identity of an Extinct-in-the-Wild Species: The Puzzling Case of the Alagoas Curassow.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Costa Mariellen C, Oliveira Paulo R R, Davanço Paulo V, Camargo Crisley de, Laganaro Natasha M, Azeredo Roberto A, Simpson James, Silveira Luis F, Francisco Mercival R
Abstract excerpt
The conservation of many endangered taxa relies on hybrid identification, and when hybrids become morphologically indistinguishable from the parental species, the use of molecular markers can assign individual admixture levels. Here, we present the puzzling case of the extinct in the wild Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu), whose captive population descends from only three individuals. Hybridization with the...
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