{"id":2749,"date":"2014-08-12T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2014-08-13T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:52:58","slug":"new-tools-to-explain-genetic-diversity-in-caribou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-tools-to-explain-genetic-diversity-in-caribou\/","title":{"rendered":"New tools to explain genetic diversity in caribou<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2745\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/c_Jo\u00eblle_Taillon_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2745\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2745\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/c_Jo\u00eblle_Taillon_1.jpg\" alt=\"Caribou from the Rivi\u00e8re-aux-Feuilles migratory caribou herd. New research into how the landscape influences genetic diversity in caribou underlines the importance of considering how land use changes over the course of the year. (Photo credit: Jo\u00eblle Taillon)\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/c_Jo\u00eblle_Taillon_1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/c_Jo\u00eblle_Taillon_1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caribou from the Rivi\u00e8re-aux-Feuilles migratory caribou herd. New research into how the landscape influences genetic diversity in caribou underlines the importance of considering how land use changes over the course of the year. (Photo credit: Jo\u00eblle Taillon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maintaining healthy genetic diversity in caribou means ensuring that populations don\u2019t become fragmented, but a new study underlines just how tricky this can be. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Currently, caribou preserves are constructed without taking into account how the habitat needs of caribou change throughout the year; for example, land that is prime pasture in summer may be snow-covered and barren during the winter. By taking these seasonal changes into account, the authors created a new model that better explains the genetic relationships between caribou groups in Quebec and Labrador than previous models. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/281\/1792\/20140502.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 12, 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;\">Glenn Yannic, Laval University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining healthy genetic diversity in caribou means ensuring that populations don\u2019t become fragmented, but a new study underlines just how tricky this can be. Currently, caribou preserves are constructed without taking into account how the habitat needs of caribou change throughout the year; for example, land that is prime pasture in summer may be snow-covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2745,"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":[174,170,1445,171,849],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/c_Jo\u00eblle_Taillon_1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}