Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Arizona
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Arizona Project


The effects of extirpation and reintroduction on the Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) through genome-wide association.

June 2010 - May 2011


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Assess the distribution of genetic variability across ~22,000 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and identify regions experiencing positive or purifying selection in the Mexican wolf prior to their extirpation from the Southwest US and Mexico