Brant Faircloth
The following is a list comprising the members of the Galliformes Genetics Group. If you would like to add your name to this list, please email Brant Faircloth.
Brant Faircloth Galliformes Genetics Group Coordinator.
Expertise: Bobwhite population genetics and mating systems, gender determination, and microsatellite development
Gillian Baker Galliformes Genetics Group Coordinator.
Expertise: Megapodes, non-invasive genetic sampling
Allan F O'Connell
Expertise: Grouse
Ana Luz Porzecanski
Expertise: Tinamou, phylogenetics
Anita Wajntal
Expertise: Crax blumenbachii population genetics
Biao Wang
Expertise: Phylogenetics of Polyplectron spp. and conservation genetics of Arborophila ardens
Charlie Cornwallis
Expertise: Sperm competition in captive red junglefowl populations
Colin Hughes
Expertise: Cracid genetics
Dan Brooks
Expertise: Chair, Cracid Specialist Group
Deborah Dawson
Expertise: Microsatellites: Gallus
Ettore Randi
Expertise: Galliformes phylogeny and detection of hybrids
Fernando Alda Pons
Expertise: Population genetics and conservation of the Cantabrian Capercaillie, non-invasive genetic sampling
Filippo Barbanera
Expertise: Alectoris partridges: molecular phylogenetic analysis, experimental crossing between different species, use of molecular markers for hybrids detection, population genetics for conservationist purposes
Gernot Segelberger
Expertise: Grouse
Ilse Storch
Expertise: Chair, Grouse Specialist Group
Jacob Hoglund
Expertise: Grouse
Jiang Ping-Ping
Expertise: Chinese pheasants
Jobs Karl Larsson
Expertise: Grouse
John Carroll
Expertise: Chair; Patridge, Quail, Francolin Specialist Group
Krissy Bush
Expertise: Grouse population and conservation genetics, sex determination, non-invasive genetic sampling, galliform genetic disorders, captive breeding, and galliform phylogeny
Koon Wah Fok
Expertise: Phylogeny of the eared pheasants (Crossoptilon)
Ludo Pinceel
Expertise: European Junglefowl Group, Lady Amherst’s pheasants
M. Estela G. Moro
Expertise: Tinamou molecular genetics
Marie Hale
Expertise: Investigating the heritability of plumage patterns in Indian (blue) peafowl in connection with mate selection and sexual selection
Masahiko Sakanashi
Expertise: Phylogeny of the genus Syrmaticus, and the five subspecies of coppers native to Japan
Mario Ledesma
Expertise: Cracid cytogenetics
Michal Kaszuba
Expertise: Grouse genetics, Black Grouse and Capercaillie genetic differentiation
Mukesh Thakur
Expertise: Conservation of red junglefowl in India
Pete Garson
Expertise: Chair, Pheasant Specialist Group
Phil McGowan
Expertise: Conservation Director, World Pheasant Association
Ramaz Gokhelashvili
Expertise: Black Grouse
Rebecca Kimball
Expertise: Galliformes phylogeny
Rene Dekker
Expertise: Chair, Megapodes Specialist Group
Richard Buchholz
Expertise: Galliformes phylogeny reconstruction (to map the evolution of sexual characters) as well as MHC evolution
Rocky Gutierrez
Expertise: Grouse
Sara Bertelli
Expertise: Tinamou Systematics
Scott Edwards
Expertise: Phylogenetics
Sergio Pereira
Expertise: Cracids
Sharon Birks
Expertise: Megapode phylogeny, DNA/tissue curation
Siwo de Kloet
Expertise: Cracid/Tinamou Phylogenetics
Stuart Piertney
Expertise: Grouse
Sybile Moulin
Expertise: Kalij/Silver pheasant complex (over 20 subspecies in the genus Lophura)
Tim Crowe
Expertise: Galliformes phylogeny
Townsend Peterson
Expertise: The purity or otherwise of red junglefowl populations (in respect to hybridisation with domestic fowl in the wild in Asia)
Wina Meckvichai
Expertise: Green Pea Fowl
Yoshiyuki Baba
Expertise: Grouse
Masahiko Sakanashi
Expertise: Molecular phylogeny of Syrmaticus pheasants, especially copper pheasant subspecies
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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