Project 2
Project 2 is now due Wednesday, 28 September, 8:59pm.
Final Project
The first deliverable for the Final Project is due Friday, 30 September, 8:59pm. This is just a form submission to provide your team and idea for the final project, or other information if you need help to find a team or idea.
Slides
The slides are here: Class 9: Distance-Based Phylogeny
Some links to materials for the class:
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Yoshihito Niimura, Atsushi Matsui1, and Kazushige Touhara. Extreme expansion of the olfactory receptor gene repertoire in African elephants and evolutionary dynamics of orthologous gene groups in 13 placental mammals. Genome Research, 22 July 2014.
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Yoav Gilad, Victor Wiebe, Molly Przeworski, Doron Lancet, Svante Pääbo. Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates, PLOS Biology, January 2004. (This is the paper that establishes correlation with color vision and loss of olfactory receptor genes.)
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Meghan Anderson, Kathia Crawford, Izzy Shehan. Visualizing and Understanding Olfaction [Presentation]. Project from Spring 2022 course.
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Yuchen Sun, Nafisa Amrula. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Sequence Analysis [Presentation]. Project from Spring 2022 course.
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Maruya Saitou and Masatoshi Nei. The Neighbor-joining Method: A New Method for Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees. Molecular Biological Evolution, 1987.