MAIN GOALS AND TASKS

Fellows of the Room


Sample preparation for molecular-genetic study

The Room for Molecular Diagnostics Methods as an independent subdivision of the SIEE was organized in 2003.

The work is carried out according to the following main directions:

• ecology of organisms and communities;
• biological diversity;
• general genetics.

The main task of the subdivision is the study of the patterns of formation of intra-species structure and evaluation of biodiversity of animals at molecular-genetic level. On the basis of analysis of polymorphism in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, population structure and genetic diversity of the species and groups is studied: Ungulata and Carnivora mammals, cetaceans and rodents, birds from the order of Anseriformes and also of amphibians, fishes and some invertebrates.

In 2003 a gathering of technical basis of the room was undertaken.