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DearScientists,I am doing estimation of divergence time using BEAST.However, when running BEST there is error.The error is "XML document stuctures must start and end within the same entity". the...
17 February 2016 9,797 4 View
I need to get some primers, but due to logistic we can not put the in the suitcase and we have to transport them in the hand luggage. We assume we have to use a coolpack, but the flight will take...
09 February 2016 1,268 6 View
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I have read it ample number of times that histones are one of the most conserved proteins on earth. Which is the simplest life form to have them?
02 February 2016 1,527 5 View
Dear all, I am studying a taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships within the Neotropical psyllids, and I would be very grateful to you if you could help me answering a very important question for...
02 February 2016 4,762 7 View
For more than half of the time since the earth has been in existence, there was no oxygen. Many bacteria survived without oxygen. However that isn't my concern. I'm concerned with how this was...
02 February 2016 9,917 5 View
According to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving...
02 February 2016 3,772 15 View
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It was working nicely but I got this prompt today 'your copy of Powermarker has been expired. Do you want to check the updat?' but it doesn't open any thing further. any suggestion?
02 February 2016 8,679 3 View
Now we have achieved some interesting results in the catalytic properties of pyrite, and are preparing a mauscript. However I am not familiar with the field of origin-of-life, and hope to...
02 February 2016 4,801 3 View
In terms of Evolutionary Biology & Evolutionary Psychology
02 February 2016 7,542 1 View
I just came across this article about the role that microbiota and epigenetics may have played in evolution, and it's kind of blowing my mind. Is it possible that circadian stabilization and...
02 February 2016 7,728 2 View
I am trying to examine a relationship between American Pika fur characteristics and their occupancy of certain habitats. While shown to be sensitive to small changes in climate, they occupy vastly...
01 January 2016 6,344 2 View
Hello, I want to infer species divergence time in a damselfly genus Hypolestes. This is an isolated genus from the point of view of its phylogeny and there is not known fossils that allow the...
01 January 2016 3,974 8 View
Eg: Holotype of Xenocatantops humilis (Serville, 1838) is of lost status. Whereas, Caloptenus strictus (Walker, 1870) a synonym species of the above mentioned still has its holotype in BMNH. So...
12 December 2015 3,263 4 View
Palaeoanthropology and palaeobiology in human evolutionary biology have well-substantiated divisions of the genus Homo and are relatively clear about the line within the genus leading down to...
12 December 2015 9,391 28 View
I am trying citations related to the idea that "diversity begets diversity." In particular, I am interested in finding examples of experiments where diversity has been manipulated at one trophic...
12 December 2015 2,837 7 View
There can be many reasons for evolutionary conservation/change of a particular gene. The reasons may vary from different perspectives - sequence, structure and function. Has any research or review...
17 November 2015 3,213 6 View
NMDS or PCA are usually employed for visualization of a (complex) beta diversity matrix. However, PCA try to maximize variation in several "ORTHOGONAL" axes (they should be independent between...
11 November 2015 4,685 4 View
I'm working on an uncommon insect. There's a reference genome for it but the quality is not that good. I decided to use STAR 2-pass to get my data better mapped, but I'm not sure if I should...
11 November 2015 9,635 2 View
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Please provide the reference.
13 October 2015 4,566 3 View
In his 1993 Implied Weights paper (Cladistics 9:83, doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1993.tb00209.x), Goloboff states that "Farris et al (at the VIII Meeting of the Society, 1989) show that characters with...
10 October 2015 2,652 7 View