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These two mule deer were spotted four miles north of Laramie. Holly Ernest, a UW professor of wildlife genomics and disease ecology, and Melanie LaCava,.
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Melanie LaCava, a recent PhD graduate in ecology and veterinary sciences at UW, and Holly Ernest, a UW professor of wildlife genomics and disease ecology and the Wyoming Excellence Chair in Disease Ecology, were part of the team to extract DNA from more than 400 mule deer. Wyoming has so much great research on these species, in terms of GPS tracking, that tells us a lot about their seasonal migration, said LaCava. Our goal, in part, was to provide this other layer of information, genetics, that tells you about longer term patterns.
The researchers compared the genes of every pair of the animals in the study.
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