The media office here at UH has picked up the story of the turtle genome release. It’s currently featured on the home page for UH Manoa. The full press release is available here.
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TreeThinkers blog
Several colleagues and I recently launched a blog associated with the Bodega Phylogenetics Workshop. Our goal is that it will serve as a forum for informal discussion of topics relating to phylogenetics and comparative methods. We aim to cover new methods, pedagogy,…
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Posted in phylogenetics, teaching
Turtle Genome Released!
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
