Sponsored Research

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Overview from Office of Sponsored Programs
 

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Sponsored Research Highlights

 

Cassandra Miller-Butterworth
Associate Professor of Biology
Penn State Beaver
https://beaver.psu.edu/

Clarification of the range and taxonomic status of the American Water Shrew in Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

We will preserve West Virginia water shrew heart, liver, and kidney tissues in ethyl alcohol for genetic analysis, and prepare the study skins and skulls for deposition into the Pennsylvania State Museum. Genetic and morphometric analyses will be performed from the specimens collected during field surveys, as well as an existing bank of material housed at the Pennsylvania State Museum. The genetic analysis will examine four nuclear and mitochondrial DNA markers used by Hope et al. (Multilocus phylogeography and systematic revision of North American water shrews [genus: Sorex]; J. Mammalogy 95(4):722-738, 2014), and the morphometric analyses will compare museum specimens to the original subspecies descriptions.