They can lead to improved animal monitoring programs that are central to rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of widely employed, expensive conservation interventions meant to counter massive anthropogenic threats facing elephants and other large, diurnal species.
Finally we characterized microsatellite and SNPs loci to be employed for conservation purposes.
Third, while I know of no case to date where experimental evolution has been directly employed in conservation, the case of genetic rescue illustrates the role that evolutionary experiments could play in understanding the mechanisms by which management decisions might affect population health.
Computational approaches such as RNAz (Washietl et al. 2005b; Washietl et al. 2005a) and EvoFold (Pedersen et al. 2006) have employed evolutionary conservation of secondary structures, thermodynamic stabilities, and phylogenetic sequence analysis to predict tens of thousands of conserved RNA secondary structural elements in the human genome.
Further, since the current pig genome assembly has imperfect coverage, we employed a conservation-based approach to produce a set of low-confidence novel pig miRNAs.
Maine lobstermen claim they employ stricter conservation measures; large lobsters, for example, must be released because they have high reproductive value.
By 2007, however, targets had been established for shifting to renewable energy, for employing energy conservation, and for embracing emission-control schemes.
Watershed management in rainfed agricultural areas of arid and semi-arid regions aims at alleviating agricultural drought by employing water conservation measures.
Conservation worked Ken Burns' documentary shows how a few farmers survived the Dust Bowl - even before the drought broke - by employing simple conservation practices.
And it has worked with residential customers to swap out leaky toilets, install turf lawns and employ other conservation efforts.
