This lecture and lab takes ~45 minutes.
- Lecture slides; (This takes 25-30 minutes)
- Computer lab exercise (This takes ~15 minutes).
- Giant panda and bear's 16s mitochondrial rDNA FASTA; TEXT;
Who is giant panda's closest living relative?
Ref:
O'Brien SJ, Nash WG, Wildt DE, Bush ME, Benveniste RE.
A molecular solution to the riddle of the giant panda's phylogeny.
Nature. 1985 Sep 12-18;317(6033):140-4.
ZIP file for MEGA4;
4 Online Phylogeny Construction, Marseille, France
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