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8 days left to help us getting ancient DNA with 1$!
We are at 9% funded with 8 days until the end of this crowdfunding campaign. Honestly, I do not know what to do except keep telling people that this research is important and that you can trust our...
What do you do with the DNA sequences?
In this project, I deal with most of the bioinformatics part of the project. I analyse the sequence data, extract some summary statistics, and test models of population history with it. If I have t...
How museum collections have helped conservation
I think everyone agree that natural history collections is a good form of time machine. We can know a lot of thing about the past from specimens collected in the ancient times, way further in the t...
Chasing for horns and tusks
Our project relies on people's affinity to the features that make our study species unique: anoa's horns and babirusa's tusks.Horns are the main weapons of the Bovids, including anoa. Anoas are oft...
Extracting aDNA from Museum Specimens
How do you get DNAs from the museum specimens? This is a very fun question we usually have after talking about our project so I thought about sharing my protocol notes here while also tidying it up...
Menggunakan DNA purba untuk melacak masa lalu spesies endemik kita
Sebagian besar orang yang bekerja dengan spesimen museum juga belum tahu kalau spesimen-spesimen ini masih dapat berbicara tidak hanya dari catatan pengarsipannya melainkan juga dari DNA yang dikan...
Where do anoa and babirusa live?
If it is not because of some geographical and climate hurdle, not to mention food availability, competition, predators, and pathogens, any species can be everywhere by now, including anoa and babir...
They are not pigs and cows
I just wanna jump the current hot news on the oldest cave painting found to date in Southwest Sulawesi by telling you how ancient babirusa is!Babirusa and pigs shared their most common ancestor aro...