Students use grasshoppers collected from glades in the Missouri Ozarks to generate and analyze sequence data to determine if the grasshopper populations are becoming fragmented due to the suppression of forest fires. Sequence data are provided here so students who do not have access to grasshoppers can still perform the sequence analysis portion of the lab.
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Investigating Gene Flow in Grasshopper Populations
- Last Reviewed: June 1, 2006
- Last Updated: June 1, 2006
- Shawn Cummings, Anne Gerber, Delbert Hutchison, Alan Templeton
- Created: June 1, 2006
- Curriculum Section: Gene Annotation
- Curriculum Type: Lesson with Exercises
- NIBLSE Competencies: C4
- Topic Tags: Gene Flow, Mitochondrial DNA, PCR, Polymorphism, Population Genetics