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Incorporating Geographical and Evolutionary Rarity into Conservation Prioritization.

Tucker CM, Cadotte MW, Davies TJ, Rebelo TG.SourceDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada, email caroline.tucker@utoronto.ca Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Scarborough 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada South African National Biodiversity Initiative, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.Conserv Biol.2012 Aug;26(4):593-601. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01845.x. Epub 2012 May 24.
Key goals of conservation are to protect both species and the functional and genetic diversity they represent. A strictly species-based approach may underrepresent rare, threatened, or genetically distinct species and overrepresent widespread species. Although reserves are created for a number o
PMID 22624595

Solimini NL, Xu Q, Mermel CH, Liang AC, Schlabach MR, Luo J, Burrows AE, Anselmo AN, Bredemeyer AL, Li MZ, Beroukhim R, Meyerson M, Elledge SJ.SourceDepartment of Genetics, Harvard University Medical School, and Division of Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Science (New York, N.Y.).Science.2012 Jul 6;337(6090):104-9. Epub 2012 May 24.
Tumors exhibit numerous recurrent hemizygous focal deletions that contain no known tumor suppressors and are poorly understood. To investigate whether these regions contribute to tumorigenesis, we searched genetically for genes with cancer-relevant properties within these hemizygous deletions. We id
PMID 22628553