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TAXONOMIC CLARIFICATION - Greater Sage-Grouse
Funding Partners:
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Nevada Division of Wildlife, California
Department of Fish and Game, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana
Fish, Wildlife and Parks, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish
and Parks, Utah Division of Wildlife, Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Western Directors' Association,
US Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service
Related Publications:
Oyler-McCance, S. J., S. E. Taylor, and T. W. Quinn. 2005. A Multilocus Population Genetic Survey of Greater Sage-Grouse Across Their Range. Molecular Ecology 14:1293-1310.
Benedict, N. B., S. J. Oyler-McCance, S. E. Taylor, C. E. Braun, and T. W. Quinn. 2003. Evaluation of the Eastern (Centrocercus urophasianus urophasianus) and Western (Centrocercus urophasianus phaios) subspecies of Sage-Grouse using mitochondrial control-region sequence data. Conservation Genetics 4:301-310.
Taylor, S. E., S. J. Oyler-McCance, and T. W. Quinn. 2003. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Molecular Ecology Notes 3:262-264.
Summary:
The objective of this study was to conduct sequence analysis
of one mitochondrial
region and microsatellite analysis of nine nuclear regions in Greater
Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) sampled across their entire
range. These data
include boundaries between Greater and Gunnison Sage-Grouse (C.
minimus) populations as well as the two described subspecies of Greater
Sage-Grouse (C. u. urophasianus) and (C. u. phaios). Because
the same data are being collected across the entire species range, it
will be possible to use the "genetic landscape" so generated
to make direct comparisons between all populations encompassed by this
survey, thereby facilitating species-wide management decisions that are
based on a consistent type of data.
