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Category Archives: DNA barcoding
Genes rolling down the river
Sarah Shainker wrote this post as a part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sarah completed a B.S. in Marine Biology at the College of Charleston before serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, … Continue reading →
The miraculous biodiversity bubbling in your sourdough starter
I made it through four weeks of Los Angeles’ COVID-19 shelter in place order before I climbed aboard the isolation sourdough bandwagon. It took more effort than expected just to stay on. I followed a protocol provided on the King … Continue reading →
Posted in community ecology, DNA barcoding, ecology, evolution
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Tagged baking, sourdough
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The spirit of Antarctic invasions future?
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a change in how Victorian England viewed the Christmas holiday. It’s clearly not Christmas … and certainly isn’t a jolly time. But, taking some artistic liberty from how Dickens outlined the five chapters of … Continue reading →
Posted in blogging, community ecology, comparative phylogeography, conservation, DNA barcoding, ecology, evolution, mini-review, natural history, phylogeography, Science Communication
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Tagged Algae, Antarctica, biodiversity, Biological Invasion, conservation, conservation genetics, Invertebrates, marine, Southern Ocean, Vector
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Brood Parasitism or Adoption? Mixed Parentage of Brooding Damselfishes
Shelby Gantt wrote this post for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Long enamored with coral reef communities, Shelby completed a B.S. in Biology with a certificate in Marine Biology at the Georgia Institute of … Continue reading →
Posted in blogging, Coevolution, DNA barcoding, fieldwork
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Tagged coevolution, fish, scicomm, student
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Snapshots of Biodiversity: eDNA as a methodology for species detection
Nicole Conner wrote this post as a project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a Master’s student in Dr. Thane Wibbels’ lab where she is developing new protocol to detect diamondback terrapins off … Continue reading →
Posted in bioinformatics, blogging, citizen science, community, conservation, DNA barcoding, ecology, evolution, fieldwork, metagenomics, natural history
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Tagged Blogging, conservation genetics, Science Communication, turtles, UAB
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Genetics of Returning Turtles
Amy Bonka wrote this post as a project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Amy grew up in Florida, completed a BS in Biology with a concentration in Marine Science and Chemistry as well … Continue reading →
Posted in blogging, citizen science, conservation, DNA barcoding, ecology, evolution, fieldwork, methods, natural history, Science Communication
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Tagged Blogging, conservation genetics, Science Communication, sea turtles, UAB
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“Through endurance we conquer.”* Are humans really the only ones who can make it across Drake’s Passage?
Sabrina Heiser wrote this post as a project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sabrina grew up in Germany, completed a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology at Plymouth University (UK) and then lived in … Continue reading →
Posted in blogging, DNA barcoding, ecology, evolution, genomics, haploid-diploid
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Tagged Blogging, Kelp, Science Communication, seaweed
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For flexible eDNA analysis, just capture whatever you want
Environmental DNA sampling for multi-taxa species detection (i.e., the inference of species presence from genetic material in the environment) has been a hot topic lately. Some of the most exciting recent work has used high-throughput sequence (HTS) to simultaneously screen … Continue reading →
Posted in community ecology, DNA barcoding, metagenomics, methods
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Tagged environmental dna, sequence capture
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Metabarcoding for every body, every habitat, every time
The immediate reason why I wanted to write about Boosting DNA metabarcoding for biomonitoring with phylogenetic estimation of operational taxonomic units’ ecological profiles is its usefulness for the scientific community and the effort of the authors to make their study reproducible. … Continue reading →
Posted in bioinformatics, community, community ecology, DNA barcoding, fieldwork, metagenomics, next generation sequencing, phylogenetics, R
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Tagged biodiversity, bioinformatics, ecology, metabarcoding, methods, microbiome, phylogenetics
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Signal Boosting a Comprehensive Review of eDNA and Metabarcoding Studies
Everything is meta these days – metabarcoding, metagenomics, and now meta blog posts that are reviews of reviews. Much like every ecologist at least dabbles in the molecular world, so most of those predisposed to molecular ecology and population genetics … Continue reading →
Posted in bioinformatics, community ecology, DNA barcoding, metagenomics, methods, microbiology, next generation sequencing, population genetics
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Tagged barcode tags, barcoding, bioinformatics, eukaryotes, Illumina, metagenomics, methods, microbial communities, microbial community analysis, microbiome, NGS
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