Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

30 Sep, 02 PM - 01 Oct, 05 AM

Freshwater sculpin are largely ignored group of freshwater fishes found throughout the state of California. Found in coastal streams, inland rivers, lakes, and their various tributaries, sculpin are prolific in number, yet little work has ever been done on them. Numbers of species, distributions, population structure, hybridization, and ancestral radiations are all poorly understood and studied in these non-threatened species. To that end, I propose to use genetic techniques to ascertain much of this information in the form of mtDNA and nuclear sequencing and fragment analysis (microsatellites). Following an exhaustive sampling, a fairly good census of the genetic diversity incorporated in three main species, prickly (Cottus asper), riffle (C. gulosus), and coastrange (C. aleuticus) should be evident. These final findings should allow managers and biologist alike to have a vastly improved picture of the makeup of these unique freshwater fishes.

Visit #19354 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 20628 | Research

Population Structure of 3 freshwater Sculpin in California; Prickly, Riffle, and Coastrange

graduate_student - University of California, Merced

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Jason Baumsteiger Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2009 (2 days)

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Whale Point Researcher Cabin 1 Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2009