Yearling Male Turkey

Every so often I get to take a ride in the ‘way back machine’ and revisit my dissertation data. Not long ago I got together some summary data I sent to Rich Buchholz to go along with the samples I sent him. Just recently I got another request, this time from a fisheries biologist who teaches a molecular ecology course at the University of Washington. He wanted to use some of the microsatellite data from my turkey project in a lab exercise dealing with the calculation of relatedness and assigning paternity. Once I made sure the entire dataset wasn’t going to be posted online, I was happy to oblige. I hear fairly frequently that people use the turkey story in their lectures- I’m excited to see it making it’s way into hands-on learning as well.

Makes me anxious to finish the several remaining back-burner turkey papers too!