Parent Group
The World Pheasant Association Galliformes Genetics Group is a technical group of the The World Pheasant Association.
Additional support for this website was provided by:
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
The Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, Athens, GA, USA
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
The Partridge, Quail, and Francolin Specialist Group
The Megapode Specialist Group
This Website
This website has been established to facilitate communication between parties interested in genetics of the Galliformes. Specifically, this website contains numerous protocols, tips, and hints for conducting genetic studies on these birds.
The idea for the site arose at the World Pheasant Association’s
Third International Galliformes Symposium as a result of discussion between interested parties attending the conference. Gillian Baker and myself (Brant Faircloth) were chosen to head up development of the Galliformes Genetics Group and provide it a home on the web.
It is our hope that this site will accomplish the stated goals and help to bring researchers of avian genetics, particularly those interested in Order Galliformes, together.
“Articles” will be posted to this site on a regular basis to facilitate discussion (via Comments) among interested parties. Protocols and participant links can be found under the protocols and members links, respectively.
If you have an article or posting (where you are the copyright holder), please send the article to Brant Faircloth. Furthermore, if you would like to submit a protocol that you think would be helpful for others, please do the same.
Additionally, we are looking for a few good editors to help take care of the site, keep up with article submission, and post additional content. If interested, please contact Brant.
This Server
This website is hosted on a FreeBSD server housed at the University of Georgia. All websites hosted on the server were hand-coded using a combination of XHTML and CSS. Pages are served dynamically using a combination of The Apache HTTP server, PHP, Textpattern and MySQL. The use of this dynamic format allows each page to be searchable.
Databases
NCBI Taxonomy DatabaseNCBI Taxonomy database search for Order Galliformes holdings (listed by genus and genus-specific epithet)
Specialist Groups
Cracid GroupGrouse Group
Megapode Group
Pheasant Group
PQF Group
Other Labs and Protocols
Bruce Roe's Lab ProtocolsVery thorough site from the lab of Bruce Roe
Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility
The University of Sheffield’s molecular genetics website.
SREL DNA Lab
Travis Glenn’s lab at Savannah River Ecology Lab.
SREL DNA Lab Protocols
Protocols from the Glenn Lab
Tavi's PCR Protocols
Discusses PCR and associated protocols/problems
Suppliers
Applied BiosystemsEquipment, reagents, and primers
Bio-Rad
Equipment, reagents, and consumables
Brinkman-Eppendorf
Equipment, reagents, and consumables
Fisher Scientific
Equipment, reagents, and consumables
IDT DNA
Primers
Marsh Bio-Products
Reagents, consumables
Molecular Probes
Picogreen quantitation reagents
MWG Biotech
Primers, small-scale syntheses
Rainin, Inc.
Pipets and tips
Sigma-Aldrich
Reagents and other chemicals