This heralds Fraser: "We live in a world where everyone tries to manipulate us – the conservation community needs to promote conservation using the same media tools that are used by others to promote the overuse of resources that are degrading habitats and driving extinction of so many species".
Using the same plastome alignment, primer conservation was determined for each taxonomic subsection (Gernandt et al., 2009).
Why not use and apply genetics in decision-making for conservation?Using the same language of economics that was used in the article, genes are the currency of evolutionary change.
Los Angeles, especially, has excelled at conservation, using the same amount of water today as it did 20 years ago despite a growing population.
Promoter region conservation was estimated using phastCon scores, based on 17 vertebrate species genome data and using the same approach as for the estimation of novel contig conservation.
Evolutionary conservation analysis for certain mtDNA variant was performed using the same approach as described in our previous study [15], [25].
The conservation scores at each amino acid position were calculated using the same server.
For each of the three pairwise comparisons between the genomes of L. kluyveri, L. waltii and S. cerevisiae, origin conservation was sought in both possible directions (e.g., we tested the conservation of the L. kluyveri origins in the genome of S. cerevisiae and also the conservation of the S. cerevisiae origins in the genome of L. kluyveri) using the same parameters.
Conservation Index was estimated as in Ruiz-Pesini et al. [ 4], using the same set of species.
We examined conservation of C. elegans miRNAs in C. briggsae, C. remanei, and C. brenneri using the same methodology as described above (supplementary table S6, Supplementary Material online).
