Autumn
2012

FISH/BIOL 340 - Genetics and Molecular Ecology

Links

General

Talking Glossary of genetic terms: in case you want to hear genetic terms without the Austrian touch... You can also download this as an iPhone App.
How to Write a Paper: Excellent summary of advice on writing scientific paper, preparing figures and tables and collating a well formatted reference list by Greg Anderson, Department of Biology, Bates College. Consult this site if you have any questions regarding the project report.

Seahorses Links

Project Seahorse: Conservation Group led by Amanda Vincent (University of British Columbia, Canada). The site offers a lot of popular information, but also links to scientific articles. There is also interesting information on trade and CITES regulation.

Seahorse Identification Key: This is the extensive version of the seahorse identification key we used in the lab. Note the species description later on in the document. There is also an online version of that key on Hippocampusinfo.org (see below).

Hippocampusinfo.org: Another sehorse conservation site with information on seahorse biology and trade. Also has an online version of the species identification key for dried and live seahorses. Once you have identified the species, this site is an easy way to work out existing trade for that species and its IUCN Red List Status. There is also a paper explaining the rationale of the 10cm size limit (Foster & Vincent 2005) adopted by CITES (see notification).

Seahorses mating: amazing photo series of seahorses mating by the Australian museum

Database entries on seahorses:

FishBase entry for Hippocampus

Wikipedia Entry for seahorses

Seahorses on Arkive (Images of Life on Earth)

CITES: Database search of CITES - search for genus (Hippocampus)

IUCN Red List Search: search for Hippocampus

Animations

General

DNA interactive: Animated description of the history of DNA exploration, DNA code, modern genome science and their applications from the Cold Springs Harbor Labs
DNA from the beginning: Another animated site on classical and molecular genetics and their application, also from the Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Biological Animation Library: Nice animations of PCR, sequencing and electrophoresis. This is the one Mike showed to you in the lab

Cellular processes

Replication: Another animation of replication, this one from McGraw & Hill.
DNA replication: Nice animation from YouTube
Meiosis: Animation of Meiosis from Cells Alive
Mitosis: Animation of mitosis from Cells Alive

PCR and sequencing


PCR Animation: Animation from McGraw & Hill
Another PCR Animation: showing the different length fragments produced by PCR
PCR Animation from YouTube: This was the animation we showed in lab. It shows the production of long versus correct fragments during the PCR
Pyrosequencing animation: good, if promotional, explanation of pyrosequencing by the manufacturers of the machine, Roche. Have a look at DNA library preparation, emPCR and sequencing.

Labs

PopTools: Excellent Add-In for Excel to do all sorts of tricky permutation and bootstrapping tests, mark recapture, life tables etc. You will need this Add-In to run Parentage 4.xls, the spreadheet we used in the parentage lab.