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I have whole genome genotype data already phased. I intend to use this phased data as input to a tool that detects Identity by descent. One such tool is GERMLINE. I am looking for any other tool
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I have started study about comparative morphology and taxonomic significance of mouthparts in the tribe Eugnomini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).Unfortunatelly I can not find any other examples of...
09 September 2016 3,965 7 View
Needed for divergence and demographic expansion study.
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The only one I came up with is Rodriguez-Robles (1998). Alternative perspectives on the diet of Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae): literature records versus stomach contents of wild...
07 September 2016 4,815 11 View
I am analyzing a set of 203 intra-population sequences of a gene using DnaSP and getting the Tajima's D and Fu and Li's D and F statistic values in negative with P values being significant P
31 August 2016 734 3 View
Can anybody suggest an approach of testing the root for phylogenetic tree, for which one cannot add a reliable outgroup. We assume that the general topology of the tree is correct, but need to...
30 August 2016 4,763 3 View
I would like you share with me well known examples or cases of species that disappear (plants or animals) without the official taxonomic description and without receive a scientific names I am...
25 August 2016 7,751 31 View
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Hey Everyone. I am trying to DNA metabarcode (COI) bulk samples of aquatic insects.I would like to use fusion primers consisting of an Illumina MiSeq flow cell bind, sequencing primer binding...
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I have Daphnia magna culture maintained in natural spring water medium and fed by Chlorella vulgaris. I have potentially a fungal contamination in Daphnia mediums that cover medium surface and all...
08 August 2016 2,679 5 View
To my knowledge, I have seen no discussion about the relationship between the species concepts and the CTVT. Since this lineage of cancer cells has been transmitted from dog to dog (and wolves)...
28 July 2016 3,127 3 View
Does anyone know of a hypothesis as to why there are frogs but no salamanders/newts in Australia? I would like to explain this - if possible - in a lecture but had a look around and can't find any...
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I need your help in performing SH test via Raxml in CIPRES. I know that I can choose option "-f h -t besttree -z alltrees". But the trees wereinferred on different alignments/data, which sequence...
07 July 2016 10,009 1 View
I could find median and 95%hpd in figtree.
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There is considerable debate as to whether foraging bees are able to assess the 'quality' of pollen they collect, and if so whether such a discrimination would be based on crude protein content...
21 June 2016 6,283 4 View
I just found out that birds have "egg teeth". are they the same as in other reptiles?
18 June 2016 3,089 9 View
Hi there, I want to carry out the selection analysis of 43 sequences using JCoda v1.4. But for these many sequences, the graph doesn’t fit in one page and there is no option for moving the page...
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What is the nature of inserts between the forward and reverse priming sites? What will be the properties?
06 June 2016 1,947 4 View
I intend to read about the criticism leveled to divergence time estimation of languages based on both lexicostatistics (glottochronology) and methods of comparative linguistics such as maximum...
06 June 2016 9,619 4 View