DNA libraries

From: ILBS <ilbs@coollist.com>
To: ILBS <ilbs@coollist.com>
Sent: November 14, 2001

Dear Fellow "Branchiopodologists",

I am looking to find anyone interested in having a "BAC library" developed in a spinicaudatan and/or a notostracan.  I was contacted by a Dr. Kelley Thomas of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  He is a member of the Daphnia Genome Consortium, and they are in the process of writing an NSF proposal to "support the generation of BAC libraries for Branchiopods." From what I understand, a BAC library will contain the entire genome of the target species, inserted into a number of bacterial colonies.  One can then screen these colonies for sequence work.  The members of the Daphnia Genome Consortium are going to create libraries for two Daphnia species and Artemia salina.  They are looking for 1-2 other species in related branchiopods,
and are considering a Triops and a Eulimnadia.  The libraries would provide a great resource for those of us doing molecular studies of these crustaceans.
If you would be interested in any way with having such a resource
available for one or both of these species (Triops and/or Eulimnadia), please let me know.  Please e-mail me (scweeks@uakron.edu) and let me know of your current research with branchiopods, and how you might foresee such a library facilitating either your current or future work.
Also, if you could forward this message to anyone else you think might be interested in such a DNA library, that would be exceptionally helpful.

Stephen C. Weeks
Program in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Department of Biology
The University of Akron
Akron, OH  44325-3908
scweeks@uakron.edu
Work: http://www.uakron.edu/biology/hmpg1.html
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