Researchers use genome analysis to understand how King Penguins came to breed on Crozet Islands

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 09:50 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A team made up of researchers from several European countries has used DNA analysis to better understand how it was that King Penguins came to breed on the Crozet Islands. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the team describes how they managed to gather DNA samples from King Penguins without disturbing them and how analyzing what they found helped to reveal how the penguins came to colonize the Crozet Islands.

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