Project Two

Due Oct. 18 at 5 PM. Fill in your answers below and save before that time.

1. Save your five taxa that you will put on your tree to a vector below. (5 pts):

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2. Next, clean the names of any spelling errors via rotl (10 pts)

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3. Retrieve GenBank IDs for all of your taxa (20 pts)

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3. Retrieve sequence data for all of your taxa (20 pts)

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4. Look at the sequence data. Are there any genes all five taxa have in common? If so, write below. if not, look for more sequence data (i.e., more years, or a different species) (10 pts.)

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5. Create a single text file with one gene sequence per tip. (10 pts)

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6. Where will you save your file? Think back to the article we read last week, and justify where you would like to save your file and what you’d like to call it (10 pts):

7. Use ape to read in your file, and demonstrate that all the data intended to be there are, in fact, there.

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MS students:

Your additional homework is to decide what locus you should build your phylogeny from. Below, put what locus, and why.