March 29th
Today we couldn’t make
any PCR reaction. So we talked about the history of the species we are working
with. Currently we are working with 3 groups, Xylis, Zale and Safia. Which were
all placed in the ZALE group, and our work is to place them in their rightful
taxas.
The species we
work with in the lab however are all labeled ZALE until we get the sequence
results and place them correctly. Last year Aileen Aisenberg made a "family tree" for the species and placed the ones she worked with in their right place. We are going to work a another group and do the same thing Aileen did last year, and by the end of the research we will hopefully be able to place all the species in their correct taxa.
We didn’t do much
today that I didn’t mention in other posts. In future posts I will hopefully
have more details to fill up.
However, the
morphology of the moths, seems very complicated, not easy to understand as they
have so many small parts with complicated names.
It is wonderful to learn that you are connecting with Aileen's work from the past. It would be terrific if you could add some more Emma Willard contributions to the project.
ReplyDeleteAny information about your project is fine to include, even if you did not do "work" in the lab. It is all important and valuable, and therefore worthy of including here.