Saving Species From Extinction: High-Quality Kākāpō Population Sequencing Provides Breakthrough In Understanding Key Conservation Genetics

High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population, funded through a Genomics Aotearoa project, is helping New Zealand to manage the health of this critically endangered species.

Not only is it already making a difference to kākāpō survival, but establishing sequencing methods to work with populations under...