Listed below are USGS facilities with genetics and genomics expertise and their areas of emphasis.
Facility |
Location |
Areas of Emphasis |
Alaska Science Center
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Anchorage, Alaska |
- Phylogeography and population genetics structure of vertebrates and plants
- Genetic status of threatened and endangered species
- Delineation of conservation units
- Genetic composition of admixed vertebrate assemblages
- Genetics Research at the Alaska Science Center
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Arizona Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit |
Tucson, Arizona |
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Columbia Environmental Research Center |
Columbia, Missouri |
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Florida Integrated Science Center |
Gainesville, Florida |
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Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center |
Corvallis, Oregon |
- Population structure in birds, mammals, and amphibians
- Definition of conservation units using molecular markers
- Pedigree analyses of wild and captive species
- Population viability analyses
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Fort Collins Science Center: Rocky Mountain Center for Conservation Genetics and Systematics |
Denver, Colorado |
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Great Lakes Science Center
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Ann Arbor, Michigan |
- Population genetics and systematics: particularly with native Great Lakes fish
- Genetic stock identification: hatchery vs. wild fish, forensic analysis
- Evaluation of population structure of managed fish for use in pedigree analyes
- Genetics and Fishery Research (PDF, 97 KB)
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Leetown Science Center
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Kearneysville, West Virginia |
- Population genetics, molecular systematics, definition of conservation units for at-risk fish and wildlife
- Gene marking to assess stocking programs and mark and recapture studies
- Study of pathogens and pathogenicity
- Ecology of bacterial assemblages
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National Wetlands Research Center
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Lafayette, Louisiana |
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National Wildlife Health Center
|
Madison, Wisconsin |
- Wildlife disease pathogen detection, identification, and characterization
- Detection, identification, and quantification of microbial pathogens in environmental samples
- Molecular epizootiology to understand ecology and distribution of wildlife diseases
- Endocrine growth factor patterns in amphibians
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Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center |
Jamestown, North Dakota |
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Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
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Bozeman, Montana |
- Non-invasive genetic sampling and microsatellite genotyping to estimate forest carnivore population density via mark-recapture techniques
- Use of sign surveys to monitor forest carnivore population trends from barbed wire hair traps, surveys for feces, and hair on rub trees
- Genetics/Genomics Research in the Central Region (PDF, 523 KB)
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Oregon Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit |
Corvallis, Oregon |
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Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center
|
Honolulu, Hawaii |
- Avian major histocompatability complex
- Diversity of pathogens
- Molecular diagnostics
- Avian population genetics
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Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
Laurel, Maryland |
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Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit |
Lubbock, Texas |
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
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La Crosse, Wisconsin |
- Flow cytometry as an indicator of genetic damage in wildlife
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Western Ecological Research Center
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Sacramento, California |
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Western Fisheries Research Center |
Seattle, Washington |
- Diagnosis, epidemiology, pathogenesis and evolution of fish pathogens
- Control strategies including DNA vaccines for salmon pathogens
- Genetic markers for determination of sex, stock, and hybridization in salmon
- Biocontrol agents for reducing agrichemical use
- Genetics Program
- Fish Virus Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research Unit |
Stevens Point, Wisconsin |
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Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit |
Madison, Wisconsin |
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