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Keeping apart: assortative mating of Short-tailed Albatrosses from Senkaku and Torishima
Masaki Eda (Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan) and colleagues have an accepted article published online in the journal Ibis that shows that birds from two populations of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria...
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Presentations on albatrosses and petrels at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2016 meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 43rd Annual Meeting at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week. The meeting’s abstract book reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles. Subjects covered...
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 65. Torishima, where Short-tailed Albatrosses have survived both feather collectors and an active volcano
Torishima (“bird island” in Japanese) is located in the southern tip of the Izu Island chain in the western Pacific, approximately 600 km to the south of Tokyo, Japan, to which country it belongs. It is a volcanic island approximately 2.5 km across...
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Ancient DNA of the Short-tailed Albatross investigated: two distinct populations existed in the past
Masaki Eda (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo) and colleagues, writing in the journal Conservation Genetics this year, have looked at ancient DNA in Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, suggesting that in...
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Short-tailed Albatrosses are shown not to be affected by a genetic bottleneck
Masaki Kuro-o of the Department of Biology, Hirosaki University, Japan and colleagues have published this year on the presence of a genetic bottleneck in Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus in the journal Conservation Genetics. The authors...
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