Comments on: When you have seen one ant, one blog, one tree, you have not seen them all

By: Adrian Thysse

Adrian Thysse — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:22:53 +0000

Just had to have a look at this again, for some reason…
Excellent!

By: Morgan Jackson

Morgan Jackson — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:43:04 +0000

Glad you liked it Erika! I’ll have a form up and ready soon hopefully to let people fill in their data for the next go-round!

By: Erika Lenz

Erika Lenz — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:26:56 +0000

I really enjoyed looking at this, especially the bit about amateurs playing a big role! My insect blog is relatively new and may not be on the radar yet. I would be thrilled if you would consider it for version 2.0. I’m an ex-journalist turned entomology student, and I hope to eventually specialize in montane orthoptera.

By: Morgan Jackson

Morgan Jackson — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:58:39 +0000

Psi – That’s hilarious! I love the screen shot of your “aligned” matrix! I was trying to figure out someway to include “molecular” data and figured I’d just ask for hair samples and do some microsatellite work or something!

Ant – Sorry I missed your page! I’ll have the form up soon hopefully and you and anyone else I missed can make sure you’re included in version 2.0!

By: David Kristie

David Kristie — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:17:48 +0000

RT @PsiWavefunction
Too awesome for words: Phylogeny of insect blogs! http://bit.ly/asJFP5

By: Psi Wavefunction

Psi Wavefunction — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:39:54 +0000

Too awesome for words: Phylogeny of insect blogs! http://bit.ly/asJFP5

By: Ant

Ant — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:55:55 +0000

Where’s mine?

By: Psi Wavefunction

Psi Wavefunction — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:36:48 +0000

PS: Are there no blogging molecular/cell/developmental entomologists? =(

By: Psi Wavefunction

Psi Wavefunction — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:35:23 +0000

This. Is. So. Awesome!

=D Glad I’m not the only hopeless phylogeek out there! However, having been around molecular biologists too long, I used URL character strings and also “sequenced” the blog posts in question using “evolution” as a primer, then did an admittedly crappy alignment, and ran the thing through Mesquite. The result was this: http://skepticwonder.blogspot.com/2010/02/carnival-of-evolution-20.html

You should now compare the reliability of using morphological characters against ‘molecular’ data, ie strings of characters. Would be interesting if you could infer a thing or two about character evolution while you’re at it ^^

Now if I spend the next 5 hours playing with Mesquite instead of cramming for my physchem final, I’m so gonna blame you along with the creators of the damn thing…

By: Morgan Jackson

Morgan Jackson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:21:20 +0000

Sorry Blackbird, I do have a state for behaviour but I apparently missed the focus of your blog (and looking back at your blog now I can clearly see it says behaviour… must have been late when I coded that one). Thanks for the heads up and I’ve made the change to the matrix for future analyses!