Readers of this blog will know that inbreeding in constricted wild animal populations is a threat to many species. Inbreeding has many negative results and can easily lead to local extinction. Now, University of California researchers are considering genetic rescue as a tool in the battle. The focus of the genetic rescue effort is aContinue reading “Genetic Rescue May Be a Breakthrough Tool To Rescue An Endangered California Red Fox, Battle Inbreeding Elsewhere, UC Researchers Say”