How to Contact Us

Telephone: 250-352-3563
Facsimile: 250-352-3567
e-mail: info@wildlifegenetics.ca
in person: Suite 200, 182 Baker St., Nelson, BC

If your samples are perishable or irreplaceable use a major courier (Fedex is especially good with international shipments) and ship early in the week.

Customs Form and Permits

International shipments may require a form declaring contents and value. The value indicates the amount that WGI is paying for the samples, which is zero. Declaration of anything other than a nominal value (e.g. $1) will delay shipment and will cause assessment of duty and taxes, which will be billed back to customers.

Samples that do not require cooling (e.g. hair) are strongly preferred, and may be the only alternative for species whose blood or meat samples are controlled due to concerns over BSE or other diseases.

What we Need With Your Samples

Please provide payment in advance, along with a complete list of all potential parents to be included in each search group. For example, a list of the does in a given pen, along with the fawns born in that pen. Year of birth and sex are required for each animal before parentage searches can be performed. Forms are available by FAX or download (Game Farm Form) (Game Farm Sampling info) , or through the mail. We will also mail sample envelopes on request.

Pricing and Turnaround Time

As of September, 2007, parentage analysis for white-tailed deer and elk was priced at CAN $70 (US approx. $65) per sample, including DNA extraction and printed certification of pedigree. There are no surcharges for extra parentage searches. Turnaround time is three weeks after receipt of samples, information and payment.

How we Treat Your Property

We recognize that the samples which we receive, as well as the DNA that we extract and data we generate, are the valuable and confidential property of the person who submitted those samples. Permission will be sought before samples or data are distributed to another party or before animals are used in a parentage search for another customer.

We will keep your samples and your extracted DNA for five years after we complete your project. If you want them kept longer please ask us to send them back to you. DNA is stored frozen and samples are stored under conditions appropriate to the sample type. Electronic copies of results are maintained in permanent archives on three hard drives in separate locations.