Acrobeles complexus

Mark Blaxter's teaching pages

@ The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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Field Zoology 3

DNA Barcoding

 

Mark Blaxter's lecture slides as a PDF file

Pipistrelle bats discussion

The 'discussion session' notes as a PDF file

There are two species (Nature 1997) PDF

Pipistrelle feeding biology (Journal of Animal Ecology 1985) PDF

Millport Field Course

 

Mark's two lectures on DNA barcoding from the 2010 course are here.

talk 1: setting the scene

talk 2: the results

Pictures from the Millport Field Course are available here

 

Useful Links

Consortium for the Barcode of Life http://barcoding.si.edu/

CBOL's "Ten Reasons for Barcoding" leaflet PDF

The Guelph Biodiversity Institute, home of BOLD http://www.barcodinglife.org/views/login.php

 

 
Website Highlight
Dirofilaria immitis

The dog heartworm Dirofilaria immitis.
Filarial nematodes are tissue and gut parasites of a wide range of vertebrates, including humans. This species is a canine parasite and gets its common name of "heartworm" because the adults reside in the heart. It is closely related tospecies, such as O. volvulus, that cause human diseases, affecting over 120 million people. See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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