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Share A University of Canterbury-led nationwide project investigating the DNA structure of the flightless parrot in a bid to find the cause of high hatching failure is launching later this year. Leading conservation geneticist Dr Tammy Steeves, an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury, believes the research will be the first in the world to investigate the relationship between DNA structure and early hatching failure. It builds on her team’s earlier work using genomic data to boost the recovery of New Zealand’s endangered birds. “There is growing evidence that differences in DNA structure play an important role in determining other reproductive traits in birds,” she says.

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