Research Task: 8327CNJ.12.0
Task Manager: Sara Oyler-McCance
For many natural resource agencies, genetics has become increasingly important in the development of long-term management strategies, leading to a better understanding of species diversity, population dynamics and ecology, and future conservation and management needs. In the USGS Central Region, a partnership between FORT and the University of Denver has generated a regional molecular genetic and systematics research facility, the Rocky Mountain Center for Conservation Genetics and Systematics. The Center serves as a clearinghouse where Federal research and resource management agencies come together with molecular biologists, geneticists, and others. Together they develop scientifically rigorous research programs to help resolve many of today’s conservation biology and natural resource management issues. To investigate the relationship among species, populations, families, and individuals, the lab employs DNA sequencing of nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast DNA and fragment analysis.
For more information contact Sara Oyler-McCance
U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
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