Hi everyone, this is Michael and I've been working in Ware Lab at Rutgers. We focus on studying the body and shape of dragonflies and damselflies.
Throughout the week, I worked on Will's wing scan project, and managed to finish scanning all of the wings he had given me earlier. Aside from that, most gene alignments were also completed. I also re-ran many PCR for the samples with poor quality.
At the end of the week, after numerous processes on organizing and comparing my dna sequences with the database online, I made an interesting discovery. The larva leg sample from Florida, which I got for a collector about 3 weeks ago, had thought to belong to the Libellula family. Now with my data, it showed that the sample was more closely related to the Orthetrum genus, a group that was not supposed to be found in the new world. On the next week, I would continue to work with this discovery.
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