Abstract One of the texts in “Biodiversity State São Paulo” series, within FAPESP-Biota Program, was dedicated to Infrastructure for Biodiversity Conservation, with a focus on Biological Collections and Conservation Units. From early 1960s, when FAPESP established, present day, financial resources have been invested preservation biodiversity national genetic heritage, besides other fields. Hist...

The impacts of climate change on crop production are already a reality worldwide [...]

Iranian bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) is an endangered livestock breed with distribution in northwest of Iran. Microsatellites are a powerful marker for animal genetic and cell line identification and population genetic study. In this study, after producing more than 40 Camelus bactrianus fibroblast cell lines, microsatellites loci from the genome of Iranian Camelus bactrianus cell lines ...

A report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 2000 claims that 9% of the global farm animal population is in a critical condition and 39% is threatened with extinction. Production efficiency, exploitation and conservation of animal genetic resources are crucial not only for the global economy, but also for the environment. As many as 30% of poultry breeds ar...