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Discovering Insect Species: Overview in Rearview
When last I blogged, the Discovering Insect Species course was in full swing; we were excitedly waiting for the DNA sequence results from our first big field trip, which was to Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. I’m sorry I didn’t … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: DNA magic in Arizona
I got the email from FedEx saying that our package of four plates of 384 PCR samples had arrived at the University of Arizona, where they will be sequenced. These plates contain the DNA from multiple genes from over 120 … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: the beetle DNA heads south
In an earlier post, I outlined the steps we took to extract and amplify DNA from the beetles we collected in the Discovering Insect Species field trip to Klamath Marsh. As mentioned, the students extracted DNA from 36 beetles, … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: Klamath Marsh!
We had a great trip last weekend to the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge as part of our Discovering Insect Species course. One of our main goals was to see what species of Trepanedoris lived in the large marshland complexes of southern … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: state of the art in Trepanedoris
As mentioned in my previous post, I outlined the state of the art in Trepanedoris research to the students in my Discovering Insect Species course. Here’s the story I told them. (As the class will be focusing on Trepanedoris in … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: hands-on with Trepanedoris
I’m a bit behind in posts about the Discovering Insect Species course, because so much has happened so quickly. Last week we examined our catch from the local field trip and learned how to prepare specimens, and we learned the state of … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species: taxonomic history of Trepanedoris
In the scientific literature, there are now considered to be 16 species of Bembidion subgenus Trepanedoris. What path of research in insect systematics has led us to this point? In 1758, when the tenth edition of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae was … Continue reading
Discovering Insect Species, week 1: Introduction, and into the field
We had our first week in the Discovering Insect Species course (see this post for an introduction to the course), and it was a good start. Tuesday Tuesday’s session was a gentle introduction species delimitation. I wanted to get the students thinking about the … Continue reading
Sharing the joy of discovery
Nine undergraduate students, my graduate student John Sproul, and me. Over the next ten weeks we will go into the field, find beetles, look at them under the microscope, do dissections, photograph them, make predictions about species boundaries, extract their DNA, PCR … Continue reading
Spreading the word
In 2009 I did some field work in Ramsey Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Arizona. The good people of the Nature Conservancy site there gave me permission to collect, and in exchange I sent them (after the trip was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bembidion, Huachucas, outreach, Ramsey Canyon
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David Maddison
The Subulate Palpomere 