Our assays

We have designed and validated probe-based qPCR assays for a number of species, many of them amphibians of western North America. Here is a list of those that are running but not yet published. If you are working on these species and want to collaborate with us, you can find us at: wsu.ednalab at gmail.com.

Common name	Latin name
Asian clam	Corbicula fluminea
California tiger salamander	Ambystoma californiense
Cascades frog	Rana cascadae
Coastal giant salamander	Dicamptodon tenebrosus
Coastal tailed frog	Ascaphus truei
Columbia spotted frog	Rana luteiventris
Foothill yellow-legged frog	Rana boylii
Great Basin spadefoot	Scaphiopus intermontana
Lake trout	Salvelinus namaycush
Long-toed salamander	Ambystoma macrodactylum
Lowland leopard frog	Rana yavapaiensis
Narrow-headed gartersnake	Thamnophis rufipunctatus
North American beaver	Castor canadensis
Northern leopard frog	Rana pipiens
Northern Mexican gartersnake	Thamnophis eques
Quagga mussel	Dreissena bugensis
Riffle sculpin	Cottus gulosus
Rough skinned newt	Taricha granulosa
San Diego fairy shrimp	Branchinecta sandiegonensis
Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog	Rana sierrae
Signal crayfish (Sierra Nevada)	Pacifastacus leniusculus
Southern torrent salamander	Rhyacotriton variegatus
Versatile fairy shrimp	Branchinecta lindahli
Virile crayfish (AZ and NM)	Oronectes virilis
Western pond turtle	Actinemys marmorata
Western toad	Anaxyrus boreas
Yangtze giant softshell turtle	Rafetus swinhoei
Zebra mussel	Dreissena polymorpha

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