Sunday 22 September 2013

NEWSLINKS: A round up of big cat genome stories

Tiger genome to help big-cat conservation Phys.Org
A Siberian tiger licks an ice cube to cool off in Guaipo Siberian Tiger Park in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province on August 12, 2013. South Korean ...
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Scientists Map Genome of Big Cats to Conserve Species; Tigers ... Headlines & Global News
Scientists were able to map the genomes of big cats such as the lion, tiger, and snow leopards in order to conserve species and protect them from being ...
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Big Cats Genome Sequencing Done French Tribune
With passage of time, wildlife species are getting extinct. An effort has been made by scientists to guard endangered species. In order to do so, a team led by ...
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Tiger, lion and domestic cat genes not so different Science News
HwaRang, a white Bengal tiger that lives at the Everland Zoo in South Korea, is one of five big cats that donated DNA for a genome sequencing project.
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Early Caturday News: Five big cat genomes sequenced io9
Prior to the sequencing of Taegeuk's DNA, only one member of the cat clade, Felidae, had been sequenced: an Abyssinian domestic cat named Cinnamon.
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Tiger genome to help big-cat conservation ecns
... to help critically-endangered cats to survive. A team led by Jong Bhak of the Personal Genomics Institute in Suwon unravelled the genome of the Amur tiger, ...
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Big cats evolved to be meat-eating killers, reveals tiger genome map msnNOW
The first map of a Siberian tiger's genome has revealed the species shares 96 percent of its genes with a house cat — so maybe you aren't just imagining the ...
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Genome sequencing of tiger completed Science Recorder
In an effort to protect endangered species, scientists have completed the genome sequencing of several big cat species, including tigers, lions and snow ...
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Tiger Genome Decoded, Reveals Genes that make Killer Cats Nature World News
The fearsome tiger shares over 95 percent of its genome with domestic cats, according to a new study that sequenced genomes of other big cats such as snow ...
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