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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.

Researchers will develop a genetic test to identify the sex of critically endangered Chinese crocodile lizards, a species that lacks distinct and obvious differences in sexual appearance.

Researchers will determine whether an emerging and deadly salamander pathogen can be reliably detected in the DNA found in their housing environments to help improve disease monitoring in the live animal trade.

Researchers will study gastrointestinal parasites in wild Grauer's gorillas to learn more about disease transmission within family groups and between groups living in different habitats.

Researchers will study a reptarenavirus linked to inclusion body disease, a serious and often fatal infection of boa snake species.

Researchers will establish tissue culture lines of captive and free-ranging wildlife to improve disease diagnostics, comparative biology studies and species conservation.

Researchers will investigate factors impacting the reproduction and recovery of remnant colonies of little brown bats nearly wiped out by white-nose syndrome, an emerging fungal disease.