The Art and Philosophy Behind the Science

Guidelines for use of live amphibians and reptiles in research
On the Use of Fishes in Research
IACUC, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
IACUC Standards as shown in the Gustavus handbook
Lab Safety by University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Molecular Biology Lab Safety by University of Maryland
MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheets: see also the sheets posted in the Carlin lab!
On Being a Scientist
Research Ethics resources on the web
WebGURU Research Guide for Undergraduates
WebGURU Research Integrity

Internet Links for Systematics and Ecology of Aquatic Animals

Table of Amino Acid Code and Abbreviations
Online Analysis Tools for bioinformatics, sequence analysis, etc. Great page!
CLUSTAL
GenBank - find DNA or protein sequences by species, location or sequence
GenBank submission page for new sequences
Nevada Genomics, an inexpensive sequencing and microsat typing facility
Nucleic Acid Translator from DNA to amino acids and back
OligoCalc for finding the annealling temperature (and other properties) of your primers
Phylodendron the phylogenetic tree printer
Primer3 for designing primers from a DNA sequence
Reverse/complement Translator converter to picture both the 5'-3' and 3'-5' strands
ExPASy Proteomics Analysis System for proteins
Sequence Scanner - for reading and editing chromatograms...unwieldy but free

Joel recommends the following software:

Arlequin - haploid or diploid data as frequencies or sequences, compares localities for nucleotide & haplotype diversities, compares/contrasts localities for F-statistics (evidence of inbreeding or gene flow).
Bottleneck - detects recent effective population size reductions from allele frequency data.
MEGA - excellent alignment checker, also builds phylogenetic trees.
Migrate - part of the Lamarc package, estimates effective pop size and migration rates.
ModelTest - operates with Paup* or MrBayes (depending on version) to check how mutations are accumulating in sequence data.
MrBayes - THE program to construct Bayesian phylogenies with, works inside Paup*.
Paup* - THE program for distance, cladistic, or likelihood phylogeny building. Mac version easily navigated. Purchase required.
Protein Explorer
Structure - for finding population structure using multilocus data.
TreeDyn - very unuser freindly, but the MOST options for tree drawing (converting simpletext trees to colorful, labelled jpegs).
TreePuzzle - phylogeny building with likelihood methods.
TreeView - simple, efficient method of converting most tree output files into bitmap pictures.

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