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Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree
“It was a surprise to us to discover that most of the Beefalo individuals we sequenced did not have detectable bison ancestry,” says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Extinction is not inevitable: Genomics symposium explores using DNA to save life on Earth
Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction crisis.
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Scientists Identify the World’s First Known Dog, Which Pushes Back the Animals’ Genetic Record by About 5,000 Years
Regardless, the studies provide a “significant advance” in understanding the origins of dogs, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the work, tells Science News.
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Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may provide compelling evidence
Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California, Santa Cruz, said she finds the term to be a great way to engage more people in the concept of evolution.
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‘It’s just a weird, weird bird’: Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong
“The dodo laid a single egg in a nest on the ground, which made these eggs particularly vulnerable to predation by introduced species like rats and pigs, which arrived on Mauritius at the same time as people,” says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
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Following Late Pleistocene horse migration toward our sustainable future
Cutting-edge UC Santa Cruz Paleogenomics Lab was key to genetically tracing mass movements long ago
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Acclaimed evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro elected to National Academy of Sciences
The academy provides science, engineering, and health-policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
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Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry
UC Santa Cruz scientists worked with Colossal Biosciences to help reveal secrets in the dire wolf genome that contributed to what the startup is calling the world’s first de-extinction
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Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire?
Beth Shapiro, an expert on ancient DNA who is now on a three-year sabbatical from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the company’s CSO, acknowledged in an interview that other scientists would bristle at the claim. “What we’re going to have here is a philosophical argument about whether we should call it a dire…
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The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back.
Beth Shapiro, the chief science officer at Colossal and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than three centuries.
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Project to read genomes of all 70,000 vertebrate species reports first discoveries
A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species has reached its first milestone, publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes.