Brenden S Holland

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I am interested if folks have experience and data regarding relative substitution rates between NADH2 and mtDNA COI gene fragments?

I am comparing phylogenetic data sets in elasmobranchs from GenBank, and am under the assumption that in most species COI will be faster, or have a higher mutation rate, even though both loci are...

08 August 2019 1,542 5 View

Do many authors of scientific papers consider it imperative to obtain permission from a source, prior to citation as a "personal communication"?

I pose this question because it recently came up for a colleague who got some pushback after citing another colleague as a "personal communication", regarding field observations of a rare species...

09 September 2018 1,647 10 View

Anyone with entomological expertise able to explain how fly larvae can survive for more than 20 mins in 80% ethanol?

While working with an endangered captive tree snail population, we were examining a dead individual and noticed small wriggling maggots, with latitudinal stripes, a dark head covered by a shiny...

01 January 2014 1,187 25 View