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New editor on the board: an interview with Prof. Sam Banks
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Join us as we talk to the newest member of the Heredity editorial board: Prof. Sam Banks (Charles Darwin University). Discover his eclectic research tastes, hear about his recent Heredity paper on Australia’s threatened brush-tailed rabbit-rat, and be inspired by his passion for population genetics and ecology.
This episode discusses the recent Heredity paper: “Population genomics and conservation management of a declining tropical rodent”
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