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Australia’s ‘Easter bunny’, the bilby, has had its genome fully sequenced

Posted on 1 July 202421 November 2024 by admin

Under pressure from predatory foxes and cats and competing with feral rabbits, the Greater bilby has lost more than 80 percent of its habitat. Conservation work led by Professor Carolyn Hogg is designed to help save the bilby from extinction.

Read the full article here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/07/01/australia-greater-bilby-genome-sequenced-marsupial-conservation.html

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