Felix Bast

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Can someone help me to ID this true bug?

suspected to belong to Pentatomidae From North India, arid locality

09 September 2015 2,941 12 View

Are these marine invertebrate-a cnidarian?

Please see the photo. From tropical rocky intertidal habitat. Width of the image is around 60 cm

01 January 2015 3,474 17 View

Can you help with designing higher taxa-specific primers using Primer Blast?

I am trying to design a primer pair for rbcL that could specifically amplify bryophytes using primer BLAST, but I'm confused. If I enter sequence/GenBank Accession of one template, for...

09 September 2014 9,074 3 View

Cladistics Vs. Phylogenetics What is the difference?

As I understand, cladistics is one subset of phylogenetic methods (other being phenetic). That would essentially mean "cladograms" and "phylograms based on cladistics" such as ML/MP/BI are exactly...

06 June 2014 8,747 9 View

Can someone suggest a good plagiarism detection software?

Paid or free, I am looking for the best software for detecting textual plagiarism. Can someone please suggest?

03 March 2014 3,933 13 View

Is there any standard assay to check anti-metastatic activity (Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, EMT) of an extract?

Like MTT and MTS for Cell viability (cytotoxicity). This paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068808) discusses the following: 1. Wound healing migration...

03 March 2014 8,660 6 View

Collaborators from all around India for large-scale phylogeography study

I am seeking collaborators from all around India for large scale DNA Sequence-based phylogeography studies targeted at various plant species. Anyone can be part of this study, no prior knowledge...

01 January 2014 4,412 0 View

Can someone please identify this marine benthic invertebrate (worm?)

From Car Nicobar islands, photographed last week. Retracts upon touching. Polychaete?

01 January 2014 4,260 19 View

Can you take TDS as a proxy for ocean salinity?

My digital salinometer is dysfunctional and I'm planning for a field trip soon. I have a functional TDS meter that shows TDS in PPM with .001 accuracy. I could guess a linear relationship of TDS...

01 January 2014 8,589 19 View

How to deal with extreme bias in Kingdoms and Domains of Biological Classification?

I don't know whether someone else have observed, domains and kingdoms of Tree of Life are so much messed-up with prejudicial judgments of taxa based on one's own specialization. My proof: 1....

10 October 2013 2,587 0 View

Could someone help me to decide whether these cytogenetic observations indicate any genotoxicity?

Onion root-tips bathed in suspected water for 48 hours, what was observed appeared to be dense abnormal prophase (B) as well as dense metaphase (A), also abnormal.

10 October 2013 7,513 18 View

What is the best way to add scale bars to multiple microphotographs simultaneously (batch-processing)?

I've been using Adobe Illustrator and ImageJ but adding scale bars individually to images is quite a tedious job especially if you have a lot of images. I would like to add a standard scale bar to...

10 October 2013 6,178 7 View

Is Cavalier-Smith's 6 Kingdom the current standard for the classification of life?

I feel top-level classification around the root of the tree of life highly controversial, with taxonomists biased towards their own specialties. For example, archebacteriologist Woese elevated...

09 September 2013 8,247 1 View

Which is the best software for everyday biostatistic analysis?

Excel is so very basic; SigmaPlot and SPSS ok, but again no support for simple non-parametric plots, for eg. Box and Whisker. Wondering what others are using?

09 September 2013 6,910 21 View

Is Lamarckism dead?

One of the recent paper concludes "epigenetics allows the peaceful co-existence of Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution." In addition, a number of recent articles, including this nature article...

09 September 2013 2,413 10 View