This shows the DNA barcode of a takahē.
Ewan Grant-Mackie – a 2006 New Zealand Science, Maths and Technology teacher fellow – compared DNA barcodes of swamphens from...
DNA barcodes are short sequences from a standard region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (CO1) gene. A...
Scientifically, takahē have been something of a mystery. For several decades, it was assumed that takahē were extinct in both...
Takahē are one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s conservation success stories. Now new research has shed light on their evolutionary history....
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