Ecosystems - Genetics and Genomics
Samples of genetics and genomics research from the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area about conservation genetics, environmental toxicology, epidemiology of fish and wildlife diseases, water quality, and genetically engineered organisms.
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Conservation Genetics Amphibians and Reptiles Alameda Whipsnake (Vandergast) Bog Turtle (King) Boreal Toad (Switzer) Coast Horned Lizards (Fisher) Jefferson Salamanders (King) Midget Faded Rattlesnake (Oyler-McCance) Pacific Northwest Amphibians (Haig) Spotted Salamanders and Wood Frogs (King) Western Shovel-Nosed Snake (Wood) Wood Frogs (Oyler-McCance) Birds Birds and their Prey, Climate Change, and the Great Basin Wetlands (Haig, Miller, Schmidt, Matthews) Also under Conservation Genetics - Birds Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Oyler-McCance) Greater Sage-Grouse (Oyler-McCance) Gunnison Sage-Grouse: Mark-Recapture (Oyler-McCance) Gunnison Sage-Grouse: Population Genetics (Oyler-McCance) Kirtland's Warbler (King) Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Oyler McCance) Micronesian Kingfisher (Haig) Mountain Plover (Oyler McCance) Piping Plover (Miller) Puerto Rican Parrot (Haig) Snowy Plover (Haig) Spotted Owl (Haig) Spotted/Barred Owl Hybrid (Haig) Trumpeter Swan (Oyler-McCance) White-tailed Ptarmigan (Oyler-McCance) Corals Coral Family Tree (Morrison) Deep-Sea Community (Morrison) Lophelia pertusa (Morrison) USGS DISCOVRE Expedition (Demopoulos, Kellogg, Morrison)
Conservation Genetics
Fish Arctic Cisco (Nielsen) Atlantic Salmon: Continent of Origin (King) Atlantic Salmon: Population Structure (King) Atlantic Sturgeon (King) Brook Trout (King) Brook Trout (Letcher) Brook Trout (Stott) Candy Darter (Switzer) Crystal Darter (Morrison) Lake Trout (Stott) Northern Snakehead (King) Pallid Sturgeon (Jenkins) Pallid Sturgeon (King) Pallid Sturgeon Iridovirus (PSIV) (Iwanowicz) Razorback Sucker (Jenkins) Shortnose Sturgeon (King) Sockeye Salmon (Pavey, Hamon, Nielsen) Insects, Chelicerates, and Crustaceans Bee Conservation (Droege, Brady) Fairy Shrimps (Vandergast) Horseshoe Crabs (King) Jerusalem Crickets (Vandergast) Madison Cave Isopods (King) Mammals Black Bears (King) Black Bears (Oyler-McCance) Brown Bears (Nielsen) Grizzly Bears (Kendall) Grizzly Bears (Schwartz) Indiana Bats (Oyler-McCance) Key Largo Woodrats (King) Manatees (Bonde) Manatees: Health Assessments (Bonde) Migratory Tree Bats (Switzer) Mountain Lions (Oyler-McCance) Nutrias (Carter) Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse (King) Mollusks Clubshells (King) Clubshells and Pigtoes (Morrison) Freshwater Mollusks: Range (King) Freshwater Mollusks: Recovery (King) Island Applesnails (Carter) Landscapes Birds and their Prey, Climate Change, and the Great Basin Wetlands (Haig, Miller, Schmidt, Matthews) Also under Conservation Genetics - Birds Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetlands (Krauss) Also under Conservation Genetics - Plants Southern California (Vandergast) DNA Libraries of Trematode Parasites (Lafferty) Plants American Ginseng (Young) Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetlands (Krauss) Also under Conservation Genetics - Landscapes
Environmental Toxicology Amphibians Pesticide Exposure and Innate Immunity (Robertson) Wood Frogs (Jenkins) Birds Mercury and Bird Embryos (Karouna-Renier) Fish Atrazine Effects on Reproductive Function (Tillitt) Contaminants and Atlantic Salmon (Robertson) Estrogen and Immunity of Bass (Robertson) Gene Expression Profiles for Contaminants (Richter) Intersex in Largemouth Bass (Tillitt) Mercury Effects on Reproductive Function (Richter) Teleost Cell Lines and Assessing Bioactivity of Water Samples (Iwanowicz) TGF-beta Biomarker and Fish Stress (Robertson) Wildlife Assessment of Genetic Damage in Wildlife Species using mtDNA (Karouna-Renier) Epidemiology of Fish and Wildlife Diseases Amphibians Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Chytrid Fungus) in Aquatic Environments (Kirshtein) Birds Avian Influenza: Genetic Assessment (Derksen) Avian Influenza: Rapid Detection (Takekawa, Hill) Avian Influenza: Spread from Eurasia into North America (Hall) Avian Influenza: Understanding Transimission, Spread, and Potential Risk (Hall) Genetics of Avian Immunity: Climate Change (Hahn, Fleischer) Molecular Techniques in Pathogen Detection and Quantification (Ip) Viral Genetics--Nucleotide Sequences and Viruses that Effect Wildlife (Ip) Wild Bird Avian Cholera (Blehert) Corals Microarray to Study Mechanisms of Coral Disease (Kellogg) Fish Adaptation to Bacterial Kidney Disease (Purcell, Elliott) Emerging Virus Threat to Fish in Western Washington (Kurath) Northern Snakehead: Risk of Exotic Pathogen Introduction (Iwanowicz, Densmore) Q-PCR Detection of Bacterial Sources of Thiaminase I (Richter) Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus in the Great Lakes (Winton) Mammals Chronic Wasting Disease: Breeding Interactions (Samuel) Chronic Wasting Disease: Genetic Selection (Samuel) Chronic Wasting Disease: Landscape Genetics (Samuel) Chronic Wasting Disease: Resistance (Samuel) Chronic Wasting Disease: Social Group Interactions (Samuel) Prairie Dogs, Black-footed Ferrets, and Sylvatic Plague (Rocke) Predicting Parasite Spread among Greater Yellowstone Elk (Cross) Sea Otters and Gene Expression (Miles, Bodkin) Surveillance of Avian Influenza in Wild Mammals (Hall) White-nose Syndrome: Population Genetics of Geomyces destructans (Foster, Cuomo, Blehert) Genetically Engineered Organisms Molecular Techniques for the Control and Eradication of Invasive Species (King)
Environmental Toxicology
Epidemiology of Fish and Wildlife Diseases
Genetically Engineered Organisms