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Alabama Fishes Research: February 2007
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Sunday, February 25, 2007. Now I Have A 4WD Vehicle. Tomorrow I hope to get with Kris back on the track of PCR of the mummichog mtDNA. We have a bunch of it ready to go; maybe we can do purification of one or two samples and have them sequenced in the sequencer down the hall (really! And hope that it works. Yeah, I'm at rish for being a gene jockey at this rate. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 2:31 PM. Tuesday, February 20, 2007. It's ...
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Alabama Fishes Research: September 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Flame Chub Presence/Absence Maps. I wanted to post one of the county maps from my flame chub survey of the past 16 months. The maps were created in ArcInfo by Kevin Hammons, a student working with me. They're designed to show sites where flame chubs are known to have been collected since 1966 as represented by collections in the University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection (thanks again Bernie! This mo...
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Alabama Fishes Research: July 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Saturday, July 29, 2006. Looking For Flame Chubs In Creeks Without Water. Below is a shot of Burcham Creek at County Road 106. In the distance you can see tire tracks, as someone has taken to using the creek bed as a road. This site produced flame chubs in 1974 and 1976. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 9:43 AM. Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Ah Yes, The Species Question; Or, Can You Tell A Telescope Shiner From A Tennessee Shiner? We hope t...
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Alabama Fishes Research: October 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Sunday, October 29, 2006. Relative Brain Size Of Males Vs. Female Scarlet Shiners. We have our initial data from examining the relationship between brain mass and somatic (body) mass in scarlet shiners,. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 5:28 PM. Friday, October 27, 2006. Fish Species List From Hurricane Creek At The Walls Of Jericho. Anyway, here's the list:. Notropis sp. "sawfin shiner". Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 5:48 PM. Examined f...
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Alabama Fishes Research: June 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Tuesday, June 27, 2006. I'll be going out tomorrow with Jennifer and Christian to collect more scarlet shiners and striped shiners at Limestone and Swan Creeks. Hopefully the shiner gods will smile on us and we can get a good collection with minimal effort. It has hardly rained locally for almost a month, so both creeks should still be low. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 3:12 PM. Sunday, June 25, 2006. Friday, June 23, 2006. So we did...
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Alabama Fishes Research: May 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Sunday, May 28, 2006. Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? I stole this entry's title from a still-unpublished paper by Hudson, Dobson and Lafferty that will soon appear in one of my fave journals,. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. ID's in the lab, to give a more accurate species total. (I hope you don't think that I'm a totally lost obsessive compulsive.). Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 5:56 PM. Friday, May 26, 2006.
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Alabama Fishes Research: November 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Monday, November 27, 2006. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 1:15 PM. Wednesday, November 22, 2006. The New NANFA Forum. There's a new on-line Forum operated by NANFA, the North American Native Fishes Association. You can visit it at http:/ forum.nanfa.org/. Registration is free, and makes it much more interesting. A variety of topics are running simultaneously, such as Fish Collecting Trip Reports, or Shiners and Suckers. Work In Progre...
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Alabama Fishes Research: August 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Sunday, August 27, 2006. Lining Up Students For Research Projects. In 1983 on the effects of embryonic exposure to estradiol in mouse pups. Basically, those male pups with higher exposure seem to be more sexually active and less aggressive; "I'm a lover, not a fighter"? Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 4:39 PM. Wednesday, August 23, 2006. All of us in NANFA will miss John, who was always a quiet, rational voice especially at key moments.
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Alabama Fishes Research: January 2007
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Histology 101 Now In Progress, Among Others. Yesterday I ran my first PCR in 2 years. Tomorrow we hope to run the results on a gel and see if they worked. I ran 2 DNA samples of. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 4:43 PM. Thursday, January 25, 2007. The New mtDNA Sequencing Crusade. I talked with Kris today and we toted up where we stand with his project of assessing. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 5:34 PM. But a...
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Alabama Fishes Research: April 2006
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News, Views, And General Gossip About Native Fishes Research In Alabama. Saturday, April 29, 2006. Photos From Swan Creek, Athens, Alabama, April 5, 2006. This is Swan Creek, Athens, AL, looking downstream from the Elkton Road bridge on April 5. It's characterized by lots of limestone bedrock outcrops and limestone gravel. Water that day was pH 8.1, TDS 58 ppm and 20 deg. C. Above are three black darters, Etheostoma duryi. Posted by Bruce Stallsmith @ 1:20 PM. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. We were going to ...