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Oliver A. Ryder, Anne McLaren, Sydney Brenner, Ya-Ping Zhang, Kurt Benirschke
Although biological diversity is being lost through endangerment and extinction, efforts to conserve genetic resources can mitigate some of the losses. The authors recommend collecting and banking genetic resources in a coordinated worldwide effort to store samples of DNA, DNA libraries, and frozen cells or tissues that could yield DNA, beginning with recognized endangered animal species. Such efforts should be recorded via a Web-based information collection effort in order to assess the extent to which extant biological diversity is being sampled for future utilization and in support of the conservation effort.
O. A. Ryder is at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, CA 92112-0551, USA. E-mail: oryder{at}ucsd.edu A. McLaren is at Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK. E-mail: A.McLaren{at}welc.cam.ac.uk S. Brenner is at the Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA. E-mail: sbrenner{at}molsci.org Y.-P. Zhang is at the Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. E-mail: zhangyp{at}public.km.yn.cn K. Benirschke is at the Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. E-mail: kbenirsc{at}ucsd.edu
