{"id":1938,"date":"2016-03-15T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:12:25","slug":"dna-work-saves-fish-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2016\/03\/15\/dna-work-saves-fish-from-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA work saves fish from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders University scientists have created a model for conservation programs after helping to bring local populations of native pygmy perch back from extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Along with a range of collaborators, the researchers pioneered the use of untapped DNA information to improve the success of captive breeding and reintroduction programs.<\/p>\n<p>This fortifies our last line of defence against species and population extinction during a time of growing human-caused loss of biodiversity, says Flinders Australian Research Council Research Fellow Professor Luciano Beheregaray. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2016\/03\/09\/dna-work-saves-fish-from-extinction\/#sthash.7dVlSnba.dpuf\">Full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders University scientists have created a model for conservation programs after helping to bring local populations of native pygmy perch back from extinction. Along with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}