{"id":3663,"date":"2025-02-18T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:14:48","slug":"genetics-project-for-butes-red-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/2025\/02\/18\/genetics-project-for-butes-red-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetics project for Bute’s red squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

I’m really pleased that we can now officially go public about our red squirrel genetics project that will be starting on the Isle of Bute very soon. It’s a ‘minimally invasive’ study that uses hair tubes to collect tiny samples of red squirrel hair. Essentially, the squirrel gets some food and we get some hair on a sticky patch. The follicles at the end of the hair yield DNA and that DNA can tell us a lot about our squirrels.<\/p>\n

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The project is being run by Dr Rebecca Synnott from the South-East Technological University (SETU) in Ireland.<\/p>\n

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The public announcement is at https:\/\/www.researchireland.ie\/news\/enterprise-funding\/<\/a>. Scroll down until you find ‘Isle of Bute’.<\/p>\n

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More information to follow soon.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Newdick.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really pleased that we can now officially go public about our red squirrel genetics project that will be starting on the Isle of Bute very soon. It’s a ‘minimally invasive’ study that uses hair tubes to collect tiny samples of red squirrel hair. Essentially, the squirrel gets some food and we get some hair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-from-the-chair"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/buteredsquirrelproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}