Always Work In Progress

This weekend we'll do a Flint River extravaganza. On Friday afternoon we'll go out just to run the drift nets. And on Saturday we'll go back to do the flow measurement, seining and substrate ID'ing. In principle we could do both on the same day, but some people can do one or the other day so we'll spread everyone around some.

Hopefully I'll receive a package from Tony T. today with some preserved Fundulus fish from the deep southeast. We'll attempt to get good sequences from some lineolatus, escambiae and an apparent species intergrade from a creek in the Florida panhandle near Tallahassee. My aim is to amplify several mitochondrial and nuclear genes following the method of Whitehead in his recent Evolution paper on this genus' phylogenetics. I suppose it's possible that this is a previously overlooked new species of starhead topminnow, but that would be too easy(!). But ya never know.