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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G16AS00041) is a US Geological Survey (USGS) funding announcement issued under the Department of the Interior. It is offered through the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) network, specifically the Great Lakes Northern Forests CESU, and it will be awarded as a cooperative agreement. The program sits in the Science and Technology/Research and Development category (CFDA 15.808) and is structured to support a partner institution in carrying out applied conservation genetics work focused on lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes region.

The core purpose of the project is to generate and analyze genetic data for lake sturgeon from the St. Clair-Detroit River System (SCDRS). The work centers on fish collected over multiple years (2011 through 2016) with an expected sampling intensity of roughly 300 individuals per year. DNA will be extracted from those samples and then genotyped at 18 microsatellite loci, which are commonly used genetic markers for assessing relatedness, population structure, and parentage in wildlife and fisheries studies.

A major deliverable of the study is parentage and reproductive contribution analysis. By using the microsatellite dataset to identify how many distinct parents produced the larvae that were sampled, the project aims to estimate the effective number of spawning adults contributing to reproduction in the system. Beyond just counting contributors, the genetic patterns are intended to help infer spawning or other habitat use, since identifying groups of related offspring and their distributions can point to where and how reproduction is occurring within the river system.

The second major component is a broader stock-relationship assessment. The SCDRS genetic profiles generated in this project will be compared against an existing Great Lakes-wide DNA inventory of lake sturgeon. This comparison is designed to determine how the SCDRS spawning stocks relate to other genetically distinct lake sturgeon stocks across the Great Lakes, clarifying whether the SCDRS population is closely connected to other populations (suggesting movement or shared ancestry) or whether it represents a more distinct genetic unit that may warrant separate management consideration.

In terms of scope and expected impact, the results are meant to improve understanding of lake sturgeon population dynamics in a key Great Lakes corridor. By estimating the number of spawning individuals, identifying reproductive patterns, and placing the SCDRS fish into the larger Great Lakes genetic context, the project supports management and restoration decisions such as identifying priority spawning habitats, evaluating recovery progress, and informing how different populations should be conserved as connected or separate units.

Administratively, the opportunity is discretionary and anticipated to make a single award, with an award ceiling of $190,339 and one expected award. Eligibility is limited to CESU partners (the announcement lists eligible applicants as "Others" with further clarification referenced in an eligibility text field). The opportunity was posted and created on March 14, 2016, and the application deadline was March 28, 2016.

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