Evolution of takahē mapped for benefit of species
Seventy-five years after they were rediscovered in Aotearoa, University of Otago-led research has sequenced ancient DNA of the takahē.
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Seventy-five years after they were rediscovered in Aotearoa, University of Otago-led research has sequenced ancient DNA of the takahē.
Established and emerging Otago researchers have won prestigious research funding to investigate questions of national and global significance, from how Māori and Pacific genetics influence immune responses, to whether unhealthy food taxes are effective.
Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale.
The pygmy right whale is the smallest of the living baleen whales and restricted to the Southern Hemisphere but its origins are contentious.
Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale.