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Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Eastern North American Moose

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2011-11-01
End Date
2020-03-31

Citation

McKay, S.D., Rosenblatt, E., Donovan, T.M., Gieder, K., Murdoch, J., Smith, T.P.L., Heaton, M.P., Kalbfleisch, T.S., Murdoch, B.M., Bhattarai, S., Pacht, E., Verbist, E., and Basnayake, V., 2023, Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Eastern North American Moose: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B30K2L.

Summary

Hair samples were collected in discrete areas during radio-collar studies in Vermont under the auspices of University of Vermont IACUC protocol #17-035 (n=106), New Hampshire (n=34), and Maine (n=57). Hair and tissue samples were opportunistically collected from animals that were harvested, died in vehicle collisions, or translocated throughout Vermont (n = 105), Quebec (n = 198), Massachusetts (n = 5), and New York (n = 24). Of the 317 previously identified autosomal moose SNPs, 136 loci were utilized to develop a MALDI-TOF MS genotyping assay. After filtering problematic loci and individuals, genotypes from 112 of 136 SNPs (82%) were obtained for 507 individuals and all loci met Hardy-Weinberg expectations in the nine geographic [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Stephanie D McKay
Originator :
Stephanie D McKay, Elias Rosenblatt, Therese M Donovan, Katherine Gieder, James Murdoch, Timothy P L Smith, Michael P Heaton, Theodore S Kalbfleisch, Brenda M Murdoch, Suraj Bhattarai, Emory Pacht, Emma Verbist, Veronica Basnayake
Metadata Contact :
Stephanie D McKay
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Cooperative Research Units
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Eastern North American Moose.xml
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Purpose

We used a recently developed panel of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers (Kalbfleisch et al. 2018) and genetic samples across five states in the northeastern United States and the province of Quebec in Canada to 1) estimate levels of genetic diversity and inbreeding across the region, 2) estimate relative migration rates between sampled areas, and 3) document genetic structure and fragmentation using a cluster analysis and differentiation statistics.

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