Author Archives: Michael Maeker

Thomasomys Phylogeny Continued

In early October we received our sequence data back from the Yale DNA Analysis Facility. The sequence data gave us both the forward and reverse strands that we copied using PCR for each of our rodent species. We had two … Continue reading

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Rodent Phylogeny Progress

This month we made a huge step toward our short term goal of sending off the Thomasomys DNA samples for sequencing. Dr. Brokaw and I found a set of primers that could amplify an approximately 1200 base pair region of … Continue reading

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Rodent Phylogeny Research

Hello fellow biology enthusiast, my name is Michael Maeker and this blog post is the first blog entry on the Phylogeny of Thomasomys research project. The goal of this research is to determine the structure of a phylogeny for a … Continue reading

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