The first paper on the Chrysemys picta genome came out today in Genome Biology. The paper is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of interesting questions that are currently being explored using these data, but it’s satisfying to…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
March Herp Night
Herp group will meet on Wednesday evening (20 March 2013) at Biomed B103. I’ll give a talk about the California Species of Special concern project that my collaborators and I are currently wrapping up. Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles in…
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Posted in conservation, herps
HIMB Pauley Program June 2013
Increased protection for 44 species of Asian Turtles and 3 U.S. species
Turtles and tortoises are the most threatened of any other major groups of terrestrial vertebrates (such as birds, mammals, amphibians). Recently, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has approved proposals to increase…
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Posted in conservation, herps
Bodega Student Talks
Caroline, Áki, and Mike gave great talks at this year’s Bodega Workshop.
Posted in phylogenetics, travel
Trees in motion
I received a request the other day for one of my old figures that interactively displays the data from my 2010 BMC Biology paper on the growth of phylogenetic knowledge. It was still sitting on my old server space at…
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Posted in informatics, phylogenetics
Painted Turtle Genome
The Washington University Genome Center recently posted the web page for the Painted Turtle genome project. The full assembly is also available on GenBank.
Posted in herps, informatics
2013 Bodega Bay Workshop
Bob and Caroline are spending the week at the 2013 Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics at Bodega Bay. Find out more about the workshop and what is going on at our new website.
Posted in phylogenetics, travel
NSF Division of Environmental Biology Blog
via evoldir: DEBrief, the new blog from the Division of Environmental Biology at NSF, is now live. It is a trial project aimed at increasing communication and transparency in the DEB community. As the first blog approved by NSF administration,…
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