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Identification of Genetically Important Individuals of the Rediscovered Floreana Galápagos Giant Tortoise ( <i>Chelonoidis elephantopus</i> ) Provide Founders for Species Restoration Program

2017-05-27

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Species are being lost at an unprecedented rate due to human-driven environmental changes. The cases in which species declared extinct can be revived are rare. However, here we report that a remote volcano in the Galápagos Islands hosts many giant tortoises with high ancestry from a species previously declared as extinct: Chelonoidis elephantopus or the Floreana tortoise. Of 150 individuals with distinctive morph...

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Literature Corpus work: 9569448e-b95c-5d79-b421-4c4c57fca71d
DOI: 10.1101/143131

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