Comments on: The Race: Gulf of Guinea VI, First week http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=470 The island biodiversity race Tue, 28 May 2013 18:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bob http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=470&cpage=1#comment-6706 bob Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:49:46 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=470#comment-6706 Dear Velma, thanks for the comment. caecilians were collected on the islands many years ago, before the advent of our new genetic techniques.
Ever since my student, Ricka Stoelting (an CAS SSI intern as well) did her MSc thesis on this critters, we have been keeping a genetic map of the various populations. Differences in the DNA of various populations should correlate with what we are learning about volcanic activity on the islands. The short answer is that if we get ‘em (tomorrow) they should prove to be the same species as the mainland form… but how long they have been on the island will be of interest.
B0b

]]> By: Velma http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=470&cpage=1#comment-6705 Velma Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=470#comment-6705 Excellent! If you find Caecilians on Rolas isle do you think they will be different than the ones on ST?

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