Hugh Britten
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| vCard Hugh Britten | |
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| Affiliation: | University of South Dakota |
| Homepage: | www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/biology/britten.cfm |
| Phone: | 605-677-6179 |
| WorkingGroup: | Vectors, EcoGen-PopGen |
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Our lab has an ongoing investigation of the prevalence and spread of sylvatic plague (the wildlife form of bubonic plague) in black-tailed prairie dog colonies in Montana, Colorado and South Dakota. PCR-based plague assays and landscape genetics approaches are being used to elucidate the population genetic structures and movement of the plague organism, its vectors (several species of flea), and its host (black-tailed prairie dogs). The goal is to understand how the plague spreads across the prairie landscape.
