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Captive tigers 'may save species'
21-04-2008
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Captive tigers 'may save species'
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Many tigers held in captivity have "pure-bred ancestry" and could play a key role in the survival of diminishing wild populations, a study suggests.
A team using a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers found that a number of "generic" animals were actually pure-bred subspecies.
Writing in Current Biology, they added that these tigers also had genomic diversity no longer found in the wild.
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