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A new installment of the venrable Rambo franchise is being released in January. I’m not much of Stallone fan, but I’m secretly psyched…
But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war- torn region.
Hell yeah!
Nicholas G. Crawford, Jaime ZaldÃvar-Rae, Cris Hagen, Amanda Schable, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Jeff A. Graves, Tod W. Reeder, Michael G. Ritchie, Travis C. Glenn. 2007. Thirteen polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci from whiptails of the genus Aspidoscelis (Teiidae: Squamata) and related cnemidophorine lizards. Molecular Ecology Notes. In Press.
Nicholas G. Crawford, Cris Hagen, Heather F. Sahli, Elizabeth A. Stacy, Travis C. Glenn. 2007. Fifteen polymorphic microsatellite loci from Hawaii’s Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtales: Myrtaceae), a model species for ecology and evolution. Molecular Ecology Notes. In Press.
This past Wednesday members of the SREL DNA lab, including myself, collected four Green Anoles (Anolis carolinensis). These anoles will be used to make BAC libraries as part of the Anolis genome project (PDF). We were lucky to enjoy some sunny 60 degree weather as a cold snap lifted. Additionally, we needed male anoles. Males have both sex chomosomes and will provide a more complete genetic map than female anoles. Again luck was on our side - all the anoles we caught were male. A truely fortuitous day.
