Low genetic diversity may be Tasmanian devils' bane
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
That may be the reason the population is facing extinction from an infectious facial cancer, say scientists who have sequenced the animals' genome.Lack of genetic diversity among Tasmanian devils may be making the species particularly vulnerable to an infectious facial cancer that has devastated the population in Australia, according to scientists who have sequenced the animals' genome.