Useful Links:
Atlantic Forest Dimensions of Biodiversity (http://www.afbiota.org/)
We link spatial patterns of biodiversity in the Atlantic forest with information from paleoclimates, historical demographic processes, and ecological mechanisms.
Barcode of Life Data System (http://www.boldsystems.org/)
The platform is designed to support the generation and application of DNA barcode data and consists of four main modules: a data portal, a database of barcode clusters, an educational portal, and a data collection workbench.
GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/)
GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42). GenBank is part of theInternational Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at NCBI. These three organizations exchange data on a daily basis.
Ultraconserved Elements (http://ultraconserved.org/)
As their name implies, ultraconserved elements (UCEs) are highly conserved regions of organismal genomes shared among evolutionary distant taxa - for instance, birds share many UCEs with humans. UCEs were first described in a wonderful manuscript byGil Bejerano et al. (2004)fromDavid Haussler’sgroup and subsequently identified in several classes of organisms outside the group of original taxa (Siepel et al. 2005) used to identify these genomic elements. The 27-way vertebrate genome alignment (Miller et al. 2007) identified additional regions of high conservation.
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