I discuss future challenges and opportunities in genetic approaches to biodiversity
conservation. Resolving taxonomy uncertainties and identifying diverged evolutionary units …

The killing and consumption of marine mammals fuels tense global struggles between
advocates of sustainable use and advocates of complete protection for these animals …

Human exploitation of wildlife for food, medicine, curios, aphrodisiacs, and spiritual artifacts
represents a mounting 21st‐century conservation challenge. Here, we provide the first …

Local markets provide a rapid insight into the medicinal plants growing in a region as well as
local traditional health concerns. Identification of market plant material can be challenging …

Individual assignment and genetic mixture analysis are commonly utilized in contemporary
wildlife and fisheries management. Although microsatellite loci provide unparalleled …

The use of DNA analysis in forensic investigations into animal persecution and biodiversity
conservation is now commonplace and crimes such as illegal collection/smuggling …

Minke whales comprise some of the most widely distributed species of baleen whales, some
populations of which are still regularly targeted by commercial whaling. Here, we review the …

Abstract Ethnopharmalogical relevance In Africa, traditional medicine is important for local
healthcare and plants used for these purposes are commonly traded. Identifying medicinal …

The bushmeat trade in tropical Africa represents illegal, unsustainable off‐takes of millions
of tons of wild game–mostly mammals–per year. We sequenced four mitochondrial gene …

To detect and avoid illegal logging of valuable tree species, identification methods for the
origin of timber are necessary. We used next-generation sequencing to identify chloroplast …