Foxes on One of California's Channel Islands Have Least Genetic Variation of All Wild Animals
Monday, April 25, 2016 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
UCLA biologists report in a new study that a species of foxes living on six of California's Channel Islands have a surprising absence of genetic variation. The research, published today in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, provides a complete genome sequence for a small population of the endangered animals, which have been confined to the islands for thousands of years.