Genetics and eDNA
Articles from the Lab:
Nelson-Chorney, H.*, Carli, C.M., Davis, C.S., Vinebrooke, R.D., Poesch, M.S., and M.K. Taylor (2019) Environmental DNA in lake sediment reveals biogeography of native genetic diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 17: 313-318.
Lamothe,K.A., Drake, D.A.R., Pitcher, T.E., Broome, J.E., Dextrase, A.J., Gillespie, A., Mandrak, N.E., Poesch, M.S., Reid, S.M. and N. Vachon. (2019) Reintroduction of fishes in Canada: a review of research progress for SARA-listed species. Environmental Reviews 27(4): 575-599.
Rudolfsen, T.*, Ruppert, J.W.R.*, Davis, C., Taylor, R., Watkinson, D. and M.S. Poesch (2019) Habitat use and hybridization between the Rocky Mountain Sculpin (Cottus sp.) and Slimy Sculpin (Cottus cognatus). Freshwater Biology 64(3): 391-404.
Ruppert, J.L.W.*, James, P.M.A., Taylor, R., Rudolfsen, T.*, Veillard, M.*, Davis, C., Watkinson, D. and Poesch, M.S. (2017) Riverscape genetic structure of a threatened and dispersal limited freshwater species, the Rocky Mountain Sculpin (Cottus sp.). Conservation Genetics 18: 925-937.
Fish Population Genetics
![Sampling fish for population genetic study](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2007/02/Sampling.jpg)
![Longnose dace](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/PB040735.jpg)
![Fish tissue](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Tubes.jpg)
![Extracted DNA](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/PCR_tubes.png)
![Illumina miseq sequencer at the MSBU laboratory at the University of Alberta](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/MiSeq-2.jpg)
![](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/2-Agarose-gel-electrophoresis-of-cell-division-control-CDC-PCR-products-amplified-from.png)
eDNA sampling
![Water sampling for eDNA](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/IMG_0110.jpg)
![Overview of eDNA](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/eDNA.png)
![Water sampling for eDNA](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Site34_RedDeerRiver_June7_JamieCard5.jpg)
![Water sampling for eDNA](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Site88_PeaceRiver_July18_JamieCard6.jpg)