By Arne Mooers, Rutger Vos, Renske Gudde, Jeff Joy, Lindsay Davidson (all SFU or ex-SFU), Bas Reuvers (University of Amsterdam)
This is the starting screen for the Lemur practical. This practical will start Monday, 21 January and is due Monday, 18 February in class.
Answers can be in longhand (easiest, since you will be drawing trees), with your name on every page, please. Be neat.
The practical consists of three parts:
The assignments in this part can be made on any computer with internet connection (e.g. from home). The questions in this part focus on the construction of phylogenies by hand.
In this part you'll build some lemur trees in R with genetic data and compare these trees with ones we've made this term.
The last part of the practical maps the lemur ranges and looks at species richness, etc.
The fact that the practical takes three days and consists of three parts is coincidence. There's no way of knowing how long each part is going to take you. All in all the practical should take 12-15 hours to finish.