Development of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay and environmental DNA sampling methods for Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas).

The Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) is a low density visually evasive species with a low detection probability based on standard field survey methods (e.g., traps, visual census).

Signatures of natural selection among lineages and habitats in Oncorhynchus mykiss.

Recent advances in molecular interrogation techniques now allow unprecedented genomic inference about the role of adaptive genetic divergence in wild populations. We used high-throughput genotyping to screen a genome-wide panel of 276 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for the economically and culturally important salmonid Oncorhynchus mykiss. Samples included 805 individuals from 11 anadromous and resident populations from the northwestern United States and British Columbia, and represented two major lineages including paired populations of each life history within single drainages of each lineage.

Evolution of a perfect simple sequence repeat locus in the context of its flanking sequence.

Microsatellites, which have rapidly become the preferred markers in population genetics, reliably assign individual chinook salmon to the winter, fall, late-fall, or spring chinook runs in the Sacramento River in California's Central Valley (Banks et al. 2000. Can.