Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to conduct research to assist US Fish and Wildlife Services management needs involving endangered species (i.e. projects developed together with USFWS biologists for recovery of threatened and endangered species).Research Objectives: Determine if any pure Yaqui catfish lineages still occur in MexicoUse modeling of admixed genomeic data, between Yaqui catfish and channel catfish, to understand the temporal and spatial extent of observed patterns of hybridizationsBased on results of the genomic modeling and admixture estimates, determine the best populations of Yaqui catfish to be used for future captive breeding and translocation strategies in Mexico and the U.S.