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February 22, 2019
Join Isaac Overcast, co-creator of ipyrad, for an in-depth discussion about processing and analyzing (dd)RAD-seq data in ipyrad. This workshop will cover an introduction to...
Lonesome George
December 3, 2018
Yale News: Lonesome George’s species may have died with him in 2012, but he and other giant tortoises of the Galapagos are still providing genetic clues to individual...
Tortoise trying to escape
September 13, 2017
Yale News: An international expedition to a remote Galapagos Island rescued enough tortoises to start a breeding program that may help resurrect an extinct species,...
September 7, 2017
A team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at...
January 7, 2016
The Galápagos Islands, 1,000 kilometres off the coast of South America, are probably most famous as the place that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. They are...
December 15, 2015
A Yale team spent the last part of November in the Galapagos gathering dozens of giant tortoises that carry the DNA of extinct species that used to roam two islands in the...
December 15, 2015
The dodo is dead. The passenger pigeon has passed on. But Lonesome George, the iconic Galapagos tortoise whose death marked the end of his species, is in post-mortem luck. A...

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