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great info !!!
she allready got quite a history
awsome pede-mom!!!! :}
she allready got quite a history
awsome pede-mom!!!! :}
Dan, it sounds like you should know about the literature, and I'm disappointed to hear there is so little on Scolopendra. I did a search of my own last night, and came up with 37 published papers on Scolopendra. 1 was about locomotion, and 36 were about venom. Roughly half were unavailable in English (mostly Chinese, with a couple Italian and one Russian researcher). That's my long way of saying "I guess you're right!"danread said:I'm currently doing a PhD in molecular entomology/ecology. I've got access to lots of journals at my university, and i've spent a lot of time searching for papers on scolopendra.
That's pretty much what it comes down to these days. If you don't have a lot of money, or aren't costing somebody a lot of money, nobody notices you!danread said:I think the main problem has been a lack of funding, scolopendra arent significant in terms of agriculture, economy, and because so little is know about the species, in conservation either.
This sounds like a good opportunity. I'm confused, though, about where PCR figures into gut content analysis?? Anyway, good luck with your studies!danread said:One of my colleagues has got a travel grant to go to Hawaii later this year to colect samples to study food web interactions on the island of Kauai. I've asked him to collect me enough samples of the native scolopendra so i can carry out gut analysis of what they are eating, using PCR (which is the field i'm working in). It's not a part of my PhD, but i might get a paper out of it hopefully.
I can give you a few references of the work done by my group if you want. Here is one by my supervisor that explains a bit, although some of it is now out of date.stemloop said:This sounds like a good opportunity. I'm confused, though, about where PCR figures into gut content analysis??