Complete mitochondrial genome of... (1 Viewer)

McMadd

You should see the other bloke...

• Oct 25, 2016

• #1

Explain me...apart from running the gels in the lab and publishing an easy paper what purpose do these then serve science these days?

Thirty years since I studied any meaningful biology...Alec Jefferies was all the hot news in the '80's when I did...

Just curious like...

McM

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 25, 2016

• #2

I'd just been wondering exactly the same!

 

Acanthis

Well-known member

• Oct 25, 2016

• #3

Ditto!
Trying hard not to be cynical about these. Maybe there's some useful purpose being served - someone please enlighten us

 

K

Kratter

Well-known member

• Oct 25, 2016

• #4

Aside from getting sequences into GenBank, so others can mine the data, and getting a publication in an obscure journal, these papers do not offer much for phylogenetics or systematics given that far superior methods have been developed.

Andy

Edit: They may be the best markers available for samples recovered from ancient DNA techniques. A new paper on pigeons and doves (including DNA from Solitaires and Dodos) is an example:
http://download.springer.com/static...92a3404f372dcd60393cd77944089a7b82bc652fafde2

 

Last edited: Oct 26, 2016

McMadd

You should see the other bloke...

• Oct 26, 2016

• #5

I should've added that I'm grateful they're posted here in taxonomy's great "one-stop shop" but the usefulness was puzzling me