Monthly Archives: March 2017

Detection of individual ploidy levels with genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) analysis

February 2017 Authors: Zachariah Gompert, Karen E. Mock Info: Utah State University researchers developed a statistical approach to detect low-level ploidy variants using genotyping data from a sequencing workflow. The method does not require prior ploidy information to function. An … more »

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Rapid genetic and morphologic divergence between captive and wild populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus

February 2017 Authors: Andrew N. Black, Heidi A. Seears, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, and Paul B. Samollow Info: Scientists studied members of two remaining populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, one in a desert spring and the other in captivity. … more »

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De Novo Genome and Transcriptome Assembly of the Canadian Beaver (Castor canadensis)

February 2017 Authors: Si Lok, Tara A. Paton, Zhuozhi Wang, Gaganjot Kaur, et al. Info: Researchers in Toronto report a high-quality draft assembly of the 2.7 Gb beaver genome using SMRT Sequencing. They include an analysis of gene content, such … more »

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Q&A: How SageHLS Brings Back the ‘Lost Art’ of HMW DNA Prep

Chris Boles is Chief Scientific Officer of Sage Science, where he’s been helping the R&D team develop the new SageHLS (that’s short for HMW Library System), a platform designed to rapidly purify high molecular weight DNA directly from samples. We … more »

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