Welcome to the Wildlife Genetics Lab

The wildlife genetics lab is located in the Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia.

Methods employed in the lab primarily center around the use of microsatellite DNA. However, there are numerous different sorts of downstream analyses that we do once we have the data. Currently, there are projects investigating parentage of offspring, heterozygosity levels, population differentiation, genetic mark-recapture, and calculations of social group relatedness. We also conduct genetic sex-determination, for organisms whose sex is hard to determine using traditional methods. Additionally, we are involved with taxonomic investigations utilizing nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Several of us are actively involved in microsatellite marker development.

Organisms of current focus include:

• Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus )
• bobcat (Lynx rufus )
• black bear (Ursus americanus )
• Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula )
• Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana )
• coyote (Canis latrans )
• raccoon (Procyon lotor )
• Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis )

We have provided several protocols on this website to aid other researchers with their labwork. These are largely either (1) protocols created strictly in our lab or (2) modifications of protocols from other labs. Other sites located on this server may have additional information that you may find helpful, including a bulletin board that will (hopefully) help participants solve lab-work related problems. These sites are as follows:

• WPA (World Pheasant Association) Galliformes Genetics Group
• Galliformes Genetics Group Discussion Board
• Bobwhite Genetics Project Software Links
• Gamebird Research Group at the University of Georgia

What's New?

8 April 2005

Software Page added

13 January 2005

Site update, new stylesheet, information, links, header images, etc.

20 October 2004

Protocols finally posted

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