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Dexter’s Conservation Genetics Laboratory is fully equipped for routine
genetic analysis with modern equipment designed to generate genetic information
from microsatellite markers, and DNA sequences. Dexter’s unique program
of rearing threatened and endangered fish relies on this data to provide
genetically appropriate fish for stocking, and to monitor the purity of
17 species of endangered fish that are held as refugium stocks.
Dexter’s future Conservation Genetics program includes the short term
goal of developing genetic baselines for all species cultured and maintained
at Dexter. Genetic information will be used to develop strategies for ensuring
that genetic diversity is maintained in captive stocks, and to avoid such
pitfalls as domestication selection, or genetic drift.
Dexter’s long-term goals for the Conservation Genetics program is to
use the laboratory to address genetic components of multiregional Recovery
programs, and to aid in the accomplishment of the Southwest Regions Fisheries
Program Strategic Plan goals. These objectives are attainable through the
use of science and technology, by developing and applying genetic conservation
principles to the management of species produced and maintained at Dexter,
thereby increasing the success of resources conservation.
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Last updated:
July 17, 2008
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