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- Title
Conservation Value of Non-Native Banteng in Northern Australia.
- Authors
BRADSHAW, COREY J. A.; ISAGI, YUJI; KANEKO, SHINGO; BOWMAN, DAVID M. J. S.; BROOK, BARRY W.
- Abstract
The global species extinction crisis has provided the impetus for elaborate translocation, captive breeding, and cloning programs, but more extreme actions may be necessary. We used mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome, and nuclear lactoferrin-encoding gene sequencing to identify a wild population of a pure-strain endangered bovid (Bos javanicus ) introduced into northern Australia over 150 years ago. This places the Australian population in a different conservation category relative to its domesticated conspecific in Indonesia (i.e., Bali cattle) that has varying degrees of introgression from other domesticated Bos spp. The success of this endangered non-native species demonstrates that although risky, the deliberate introduction of threatened exotic species into non-native habitat may provide, under some circumstances, a biologically feasible option for conserving large herbivores otherwise imperiled in their native range.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Australia; RESEARCH; BANTENG; ENDANGERED species; GENETIC engineering; WILDLIFE conservation; HABITATS; CONSERVATION biology; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences
- Publication
Conservation Biology, 2006, Vol 20, Issue 4, p1306
- ISSN
0888-8892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00428.x