Adaptive introgression, the transfer of beneficial alleles between species through hybridization, is increasingly recognized as an important source of adaptation to novel environments. However, the th...

Bogong moths have been in the news the last few weeks. Huge numbers were recorded over large areas of New South Wales, which is very exciting news after a few years of potential decline and an IUCN…

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

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Wild rice, or manoomin in the Ojibwe language, is culturally significant to northern Wisconsin tribes, and Wisconsin regulators are anticipating an increased wild rice harvest this year.

With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.

Despite its long larval dispersal period, the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) is not genetically homogeneous across its range. Whole-genome data reveal

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Marine bivalves are known for their high genetic diversity and potentially high genetic load, as well as their structurally complex genomes. The European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis , is no exception. ...

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