Can someone recommend a software suitable for a mid-domain effect (MDE)?

I need package to conduct mid-domain effect analyses for community data. Is there any package implementing this function?

11 December 2013 8,343 10 View

What is the most promising explanation for mid peak elevational gradient in species richness?

Hump shape distribution of biodiversity is the most common in the mountains. The mid-domain effect (only relatively simple model which can produce such a pattern) seems not as a driver of that...

09 October 2013 5,403 17 View

Is it possible to control Carassius carp in large lakes?

Although there is a lot of information about Carassius species, I could not found any methodological guideline nor successful practice of controlling invasive Carassius species in the lakes. Can...

02 March 2013 798 11 View

Rstudio, Tinn-R or RKWard?

Not long ago I start Using Rstudio. However there are some other IDE with some differences in functionality. It will be very helpful if anyone familiar with these IDE provides some comprehensive...

02 March 2013 5,783 17 View

R vs. all the rest

R is becoming the most used environment in data analysis. It is fast (then any other menu driven soft), free and there are lots of packages to do almost everything. It seems to me that very soon R...

02 March 2013 3,166 16 View

Bayesian vs. frequentist statistics.

02 March 2013 4,432 21 View

Variation partitioning

I wander if there is a menu driven software which can perform variance partitioning (Borcard et al., 1992, Borcard and Legendre, 1994) in order to separate the importance of spatial dependence and...

08 September 2012 1,191 8 View

Gap between conservation science and practice

I have an impression that as time goes by, the gap between conservation science and practice is increasing. Since the practitioners (such as PA rangers, NGO staff with no research background,...

01 January 1970 9,773 17 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

Errors in DNA sequences?

I am trying to better understand the scope of DNA replication and sequencing errors, e.g. 1. I have seen similar error rates of 10e4 to 10e5 for cell & instrumental DNA replication,...

24 February 2021 4,397 3 View

Is it possible to define biogas as a fuel in the reformer process(scwg) in Homer software?

Hi every one Is it possible to define biogas as a fuel in the reformer process(scwg) in Homer software? Biogas fuel is not available in the options thanks

23 February 2021 6,518 3 View