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Ecologists try to speed up evolution to save Australian marsupial from toxic toads

The strategy could also be used to bolster the defences of Tasmanian devils and corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
  1. April Reese
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On an island off Australia’s north-central coast, researchers are conducting an unprecedented experiment: mixing endangered animals that have evolved genetic defences against their biggest foe with those that haven’t, in the hope that their offspring will take after the wiser parent.

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Nature 559, 451-452 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05757-y

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