Phylogenetics

therapy. Even though it was proven to not have any link to helping brain problems, people still use it. Patterning was invented by Glenn Doman and C. Delacato, they believed that mental retardation is cause by failing to develop properly in the phylogenetic stages. Their treatment consist of having the patients crawl in a certain way that supposedly helps develop the proper pattern in the central nervous system. Patients supposed to do this for five minutes four times a day. This treatment…

that studying three groups of new species can trace back to polyploidy, showing how common this can actually be. Another thing being studied is consequences of duplication in for how the genes will evolve. Four papers, including literature review, phylogenetic, laboratory study painting, and population approach, show the diversity to answer these questions. These and other papers show that there is a comparative relationship between polyploidy and sexual systems in…

mangostana is closely related to G. malaccensis. Seeing the availability of ITS sequence for utilization of genetic diversity Liu et al (2016) also made an attempt on relationship of several Garcinia species from china. Nazer et al. (2007) studied phylogenetic relationships between cultivated Garcinia species distributed in Malaysia and some wild…

The Strength of the Yucca-Yucca Moth Interaction: Review of Past Scientific Studies Abstract The relationship between Yucca moths from Tegeticula, Parategeticula and Prodoxous with the Yucca plant (Agavaceae) has been observed over centuries. The strength of their interaction has created contradictory theories. Whether the relationship is obligate or falcultative is one of the ideas providing differing views. The effects of external influences have also been studied by many. In this review I…

AmphibiaWeb Species Account Template: Information Fields GENUS: Pseudoeurycea SPECIES: Pseudoeurycea orchimelas COMMON NAME: San Martin Worm Salamander IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Endangered INTERNATIONAL STATUS: NATIONAL STATUS: REGIONAL STATUS: DESCRIPTION: (Enough information to identify an unknown amphibian that you have) Pseudoeurycea orchimelas has a rounded snout, small nares, and a postorbital groove. It has two rows of vomerine teeth and enlarged premaxillary teeth. Its head is…

Zaglossus bruijni is the Latin name for the Western Long-beaked Echidna (IUCN, 2016). In 1982 the species became Vulnerable up until 1994 where it then increased to endangered, the most up to date assessment on the Western Long- Beaked Echidna in 2008 and classes it as Critically Endangered (IUCN,2016). This species is found in the Vogelkop Peninsula of Papua Province, Indonesia. It had been thought to have been Australia at one point due to the aboriginal artwork located on Arnhem Land as well…

Hypothesis: 1.) Animals with nocturnal sleep cycles will have greater similarity in the PER gene than the PER gene of diurnal animals. 2.) Differences in the sequences of PER genes can account for variance in the free running period (FRP) between varying organisms. 3.) Human PER gene homologs arose from prior duplication events throughout evolution. Motivation and Background: The biological clock is an endogenous mechanism that regulates the physiological activities of an organism. It was…

For instance, evolution helped in creating the phylogenetic tree which established the linkage between different species and linked species to a common ancestor. However, people who liked the idea of humans being the dominant species did not favor the idea of “humans [descending] from ape-like primates…

I began my undergraduate research career at the end of my freshman year, under Dr. Chase at Northwest Nazarene University. Inspired by the work done on the Human Microbiome Project, this endeavor sought to predict bacterial behavior using its DNA sequence. As this project was in its infancy, most of my research was focused into generating a workflow that could be used for this process, and scouring through literature for examples of laboratories that had done the same. This bioinformatics…

Ground squirrels are among the most intensively studied groups of mammals (Harrison et al, 2003) and generally classic subjects for research on variations in life-history traits and population dynamics (Hoffmann, 2002; Miche ner, 1998; Oli et al, 2001). They are small- to medium-sized animals that spend much of their lives in extensive burrow systems (Nowak, 1991; O¨ zkurt et al., 2005) and are obligate hibernators during seasons with low ambient temperatures and poor foraging conditions…