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Online Course in DNA Taxonomy and Phylogeny
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A beginner-level course in DNA taxonomy and phylogeny consisting of demo and hands-on-training on real data shared among the participants.
Theory: Terms and concepts used in DNA taxonomy and phylogenetic tree, substitution model, molecular markers, public databases, integrative taxonomy, concatenated phylogeny Demo and Hands-on-training: Quality check of sequence chromatograms, identification of taxa using BLAST, alignment, selection of appropriate substitution model, NJ and ML tree using MEGA software, and Bayesian tree using MrBayes, interpretation of results.