Please send me the PDF!

Totally messed up.

I guess I didn't get the memo that every day isn't frog day.

Learn more about Shanelle's research on her website: shanellewiks.github.io

Here' comes Saruman for our forests. I love PNW old growth forests more than any other habitat on Earth. Devastating.

...genetically diverse populations—also termed “genetic rescue”—is an effective way to boost genetic diversity and population sizes. To see it pop out as the top management action for offsetting genetic diversity loss in this global meta-analysis just puts an exclamation point on this conclusion.

I was stunned that population supplementation was by far the most effective conservation management action for slowing down and counteracting the loss of genetic diversity. A lot of experimental and observational studies have shown that supplementing populations with individuals from larger, more...

EXCITING BONUS: This paper presents the first published reference genome for the remarkable tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) from the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Along with its closest living relatives, New Zealand's Leiopelma, it forms a clade that represents the most basal lineage of all living frogs!