I went to the circus (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey) last night with the kids… OK, so one of the more unpleasant things about the circus is wading through the PETA and animal right people all with signs about how the elephants are mistreated. The thing is, that they’ve had the same 3 pictures of elephants […]
Of late, there has been a lot of discussion on the use of preprint servers (here, here, here), and the pros and potential cons of posting manuscripts pre-acceptance. For me, the pros are obvious, the dissemination of research as widely and freely as possible. Cons, well, having ideas or research stolen. I guess we all […]
Here are the basic assembly stats for the bird data: contig cutoff size=250bp N:250 n:N50 N80 N50 N20 max sum name Average 105054.3 8628.2 1235754.8 3899483.5 9540090.4 19342630.9 1.03E+09 849 57 2283 8580 20266 51162 1933317 bird_8C_contigs.fa 826 47 2930 11620 23347 57581 2026432 bird_8C_scaffolds.fa 70467 7137 15629 39414 87076 554547 1.04E+009 bird_6C_contigs.fa 16495 […]
I thought I’d add a link to my newest paper: (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0848-2) Abstract: Differences in the number of sexual partners (i.e., mating system) have the potential to exert a strong influence on the bacterial communities present in reproductive structures like the vagina. Because this structure serves as a conduit for gametes, bacteria present there may have […]
Well, it’s certainly been a long time since ive written anything here, and I won’t claim to be up you giving a full update now… besides, it seems that a grand total of 2 people look at this non-existant blog, and that includes me.. I guess this is that I get for trying to finish […]
I was thinking about doing a small project looking at selection on genes associated with innate immunity- like the TLR family.. Might serve as a nice contrast to all my work with the MHC.. What do you all think about that??
Not sure how much Im going to write here, but…