{"id":2483,"date":"2014-07-22T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:52:46","slug":"captive-population-of-giant-pandas-is-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/captive-population-of-giant-pandas-is-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Captive population of giant pandas is healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2419\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PandaChina_David-Schroeter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2419\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2419\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PandaChina_David-Schroeter-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Giant panda living in captivity in China. (Photo credit: David Schroeter, flickr.com)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PandaChina_David-Schroeter-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PandaChina_David-Schroeter.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant panda living in captivity in China. (Photo credit: David Schroeter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drs2biz\/197524395\/in\/set-72157625660976598\">flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The population of captive giant pandas in China is genetically healthy, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have observed high levels of genetic diversity and low levels of inbreeding in pandas living in four\u00a0Chinese breeding centres. The researchers came to their conclusion after analayzing\u00a0240 pandas out of 341 that are kept in captivity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors hope that breeding centres will combine this genetic data with pedigree data in order to ensure that pandas can maintain genetic diversity once released back in the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbe.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/07\/22\/molbev.msu210.short?rss=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Molecular Biology and Evolution<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fuwen Wei, Chinese Academy of Science, China<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The population of captive giant pandas in China is genetically healthy, a new study shows. Researchers have observed high levels of genetic diversity and low levels of inbreeding in pandas living in four\u00a0Chinese breeding centres. The researchers came to their conclusion after analayzing\u00a0240 pandas out of 341 that are kept in captivity. The authors hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,1445,2003,909,2002,1290],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-endangered-species","tag-genetics","tag-pandas","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PandaChina_David-Schroeter.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-E3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}