Museums and other natural history collections (NHC) worldwide house millions of
specimens. With the advent of molecular genetic approaches these collections have …

Conservation biology has been accurately described as a crisis discipline. Much like the
human disease crisis disciplines of HIV biology and cancer biology, conservation biology …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

Natural history museum collections provide unique resources for understanding how
species respond to environmental change, including the abrupt, anthropogenic climate …

Natural history collections have long been used by morphologists, anatomists, and
taxonomists to probe the evolutionary process and describe biological diversity. These …

Who does not remember the genetic identification of the skeletons of the Romanov family or
the investigation of the putative clothing of the famous Kaspar Hauser? Those are highlights …

Museum collections are critical to contemporary biological research, but museum
acquisitions have declined in recent decades, hampering researchers' ability to use …

Natural history collections are unparalleled repositories of geographical and temporal
variation in faunal conditions. Molecular studies offer an opportunity to uncover much of this …

Bearded vulture populations in the Western Palearctic have experienced a severe decline
during the last two centuries that has led to the near extinction of the species in Europe. In …

Abstract The US Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) Red Wolf Recovery Program
recognizes hybridization with coyotes as the primary threat to red wolf recovery. Efforts to …