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Researchers will characterize and monitor fatty disorders in Quaker parrots, a species prone to high cholesterol, as well as gauge the effects of statin drugs to address these disorders.

Researchers will study the complex issue of genetic diversity when bringing a species back from the brink of extinction, using genetic data from the critically endangered Pacific pocket mouse.

Researchers will study the relationship between gut bacterial communities (microbiomes) and gastrointestinal health in maned wolves.

Researchers will investigate a novel treatment for brevetoxicosis (a condition caused by ingesting harmful toxins produced by algae blooms) in stranded sea turtles.

Researchers will test a probiotic treatment strategy (the use of beneficial, pathogen-inhibiting microbes) in wild boreal toads under threat from an emerging fungal disease.

Researchers will investigate how different rearing practices influence the health of the microbiome (a collection of microbes that live inside and outside the body) in whooping crane chicks.

Researchers will determine whether it would be safe to release a parasitic wasp in the Galapagos Islands to control a fly devastating young Darwin’s finches.