Genetic Karyotyping Saves Zoo Dik Diks
Günther’s dik dik “Can you do a paternity test on a chimpanzee?” “Can you figure out how closely related this group of California condors is?” We here at the Genetics Division of the San Diego Zoo...
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Frozen Zoo Cell Culture Seminar 2013 participants pose for a group photo. We had a wonderful opportunity to share our tissue culture and cytogenetic expertise when the Genetics Division of the San...
View ArticleCytogenetics: Adding to the Frozen Zoo
A rare tuatara, above, and tuatara fibroblast cells. We have had another exciting year in the Genetics Division at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. The cytogenetic team has...
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Suellen, far right, and her carpool group.In 2004, when the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research was moved from the Zoo to its new site at the Safari Park, my life was changed. First off,...
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Our newest reindeer calf's DNA will soon be part of our Frozen Zoo. We have over 8,500 individual animal cell lines represented in our Frozen Zoo®, a cell line collection started in 1975 by San Diego...
View ArticleCounting Chromosomes
Lowland gorilla karyotype On any given day, I never know what species I will be working with in the Genetics Laboratory of the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. Today it was a western...
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