Acquisition of Instrumentation for Research in Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics

该奖项支持在生态和进化研究的几个重要领域的研究项目中使用关键的遗传技术。一个项目将研究社会合作的成本和收益，第二个项目将促进北美食肉动物的库存和丰度估计，第三个项目将研究散布在鲑科鱼类基因组中的基因选择的重要性。这些项目中的每一个都涉及生态学或进化论的基本问题。购买的设备是Li-COR基因成像系统，带有额外的基因成像软件（Li-COR 4200-2NEN Global IR2）。该系统将允许蒙大拿大学的研究人员进行关键的基因测序活动，并以高分辨率确定个体的遗传图谱。该奖项的广泛影响包括加强蒙大拿大学的研究基础设施。此外，这种基础设施的存在将使本科生和研究生能够在应用于生态学和进化研究的一些最新遗传技术方面得到培训。其中一个研究项目将涉及对一种濒危物种——加拿大猞猁的研究。

This award supports the use of crucial genetic technology for research projects in several important areas of ecological and evolutionary research. One project will study the costs and benefits of social cooperation, a second will facilitate the inventory and abundance estimates for North American carnivores, and a third will study the importance of selection at genes scattered throughout the genome in salmonid fish. Each of these projects addresses fundamental issues in ecology or evolution. The equipment purchased is a Li-COR Gene imaging system with additional gene imaging software (LI-COR 4200-2NEN Global IR2). This system will allow researchers at the University of Montana to carry out critical gene sequencing activities and also to determine the genetic profile of individuals with a high degree of resolution. The broad implications of this award include the strengthening of research infrastructure at the University of Montana. In addition, the presence of this infrastructure will allow training of undergraduate and graduate students in some of the latest genetic techniques as they apply to ecology and evolutionary research. One of the research projects will involve studies of an endangered species, the Canadian Lynx.