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Cheetah Genetic Pool Continues to Decline

Edit All Africa 08 Jul 2016
[Namibia Economist] OTJIWARONGO, Dr Laurie Marker, Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), and Dr Stephen J. O'Brien, a long-time CCF research collaborator, former CCF Board Chairman and currently director of the Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St ... "Continued decline in genetic diversity among wild cheetahs (Acinonyx juba ... ....

Smithsonian Study Reveals Precipitous Decline of Genetic Diversity in Wild Cheetahs (Smithsonian's National Zoo)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
The planet's last stronghold of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) is losing genetic diversity at an alarming rate according to a new study from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and partners published June 21 in the journal Biological Conservation ... The planet's last stronghold of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) is losing genetic ......

Smithsonian Study Reveals Precipitous Decline of Genetic Diversity in Wild Cheetahs (Smithsonian Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
(Source. Smithsonian Institution). The planet's last stronghold of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) is losing genetic diversity at an alarming rate according to a new study from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and partners published June 21 in Biological Conservation ... Genetic diversity plays a key role in the overall health of a species, its ability to fight disease and even whether it can easily reproduce ... # # #....

Chewbaaka's Cheetah Ancestors Migrated From North America

Edit IFL Science 11 Dec 2015
Found across large swaths of Africa and parts of Iran, the cheetah can reach top speeds of up to 121 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour), meaning it is undoubtedly the fastest land animal ... The cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, evolved around 5.5 million years ago, about 5 million years before anatomically modern humans evolved. Researchers from St ... Normally, a huge decrease in genetic variation indicates a major population decrease ... ....

Rarely seen Saharan cheetah revealed in incredible photos

Edit Business Insider 04 Feb 2015
See Also. I's not easy to get a glimpse of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki), the rarest of the six cheetah subspecies. Only about 200 to 250 of these nocturnal cats are thought to survive in remote pockets of Algeria, Niger, Togo, Mali, Benin and Burkina Faso, making them the rarest—and at the same time the most widely distributed—large predator on the planet ... All of this has an end-point ... Loading ... Life ... ....

Wildlife Conservation Society gets a peek at Saharan cheetah

Edit The Examiner 29 Jan 2015
Sarah M. Durant from the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and a team of Algerian and British researchers captured what may be the last live photographs of the Saharan cheetah in the Jan 28, 2015 edition of the journal Public Library of Science. The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) is considered extremely endangered ... ....
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